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monument

[mon-yuh-muhnt, mon-yuh-ment] / ˈmɒn jə mənt, ˈmɒn jəˌmɛnt /


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By then, graffiti had been scrubbed from the central monument that pays tribute to the French Republic, including its tradition of insurrection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Police detained six activists who had draped Greenpeace protest banners from a monument on Jakarta's central Bundaran HI roundabout on Tuesday morning, before the student marches, according to Jeanny Sirait, a campaigner for the NGO.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

It’s no wonder that, when she meets someone who can bridge that gap, she wants to make a monument of it.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The man Christopher Nolan calls the greatest filmmaker who ever lived now has his monument: “The Complete Kubrick,” a 30-disc, $600 boxed set of 4K Blu-Ray editions of all 13 features.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Such was Woundwort’s monument: and perhaps it would not have displeased him.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

There are great musical monuments to historical upheavals, but vanishingly few were written during the events they depict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It is felt most strongly in the memorial garden on the site of the fallen school, and among the white arched monuments of the cemetery.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Juxtaposing Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments and recent art, “Monuments” challenges white supremacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Whatever their origins, these monuments, Mr. Warrack reminds us, are part of our shared human heritage; as their inheritors, it is our responsibility to understand and preserve them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Visitors from the Shang Dynasty are said to have crossed the Pacific to teach the ancient Olmec how to write, build monuments, and worship a feline god.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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