granite
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US President Donald Trump has continued his makeover of the White House, adding a statue of Christopher Colombus and laying new black granite paving stones on the famed West Wing colonnade.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Beneath Pine Island Glacier lies an enormous buried granite mass, nearly 100 km wide and 7 km thick, roughly half the size of Wales in the UK.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026
Canadian women's skip Rachel Holman was pinged for a double-touch, as was Team GB's Bobby Lammie - both incidents not deliberate and the case of a lingering figure falling on to the granite.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
“Touching the granite at any time during the forward motion is not allowed,” the statement read.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
But my father noticed a tiny crack in the granite, and he pointed it out.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing granite
Earth Science - Middle School
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Earth Science - High School
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