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stony

[stoh-nee] / ˈstoʊ ni /


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They sit in stony silence because they are watching their life’s work being systematically dismantled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The long and winding route to his house takes us through the back gardens of Palestinian homes, and along stony pathways, to a hill overlooking the neighbourhood.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

But it was his grittiest—and that’s all Indiana needed for its famously stony coach to drop the scowl.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

They control the real-life troops as in a computer game but their faces are stony, their focus total.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

It is a land of rocky ways and stony hills and rugged mountains, and in such places the exquisite vivid bloom of the wild flowers,

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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