quarry

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Which reminds me of another hapless cartoon character who thought himself a genius but who kept screwing things up in ceaseless pursuit of his quarry: Wile E. Coyote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Brown grew up near Middlesbrough, England, playing in a local rock quarry and climbing trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

"We did not know about the strange disease causing our colleagues to die," said Evans Omondi, 34, who travelled hundreds of miles from western Kenya to work at the quarry.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

A quarry in Oxfordshire revealed one of the world's largest-ever dinosaur trackway sites, with around 200 enormous footprints left behind 166 million years ago.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

After we raised the obelisk above the quarry surface, pieces of discarded granite were placed underneath it to hold it off the ground.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman