monument
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The wedding of the second version of Taylor, by contrast, was a monument to her own arrested development.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
The council said it would work carefully to protect the archaeology underneath and preserve the scheduled ancient monument.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Leo will visit the "Door of Europe", a monument dedicated to migrants, and speak briefly with a migrant family.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Asked recently in an interview with The Wall Street Journal about Trump supporters’ call for the 47th president’s face to be carved into the monument, Burgum didn’t rule it out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
A chorten is a religious monument, usually made of rock and often containing sacred relics; it is also called a stupa.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
"It's crystal clear: The language of the act provides the president power to create national monuments," Thomas Delehanty, a lawyer for Earthjustice, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The study may also help explain why the construction of megalithic tombs and other massive stone monuments came to an end across Europe during roughly the same period.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
And so of all the monuments that war left us, it is the most visible, and our most hopeful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Its significance is reflected at monuments and in rituals around the world.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
In the fall of 1980, Maya Lin was a senior at Yale University, taking a class on funereal architecture, studying how cemeteries and monuments reflect attitudes toward death.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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