boulder
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Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Larger incoming objects, such as boulder sized rocks that create especially bright flashes, are known as bolides or fireballs.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
"It's not a piece of dust, but it's not a meter-size boulder, either."
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
He's perched on a boulder under a warm spring sun.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
At the bottom of a boulder she found the first victim.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Shannon, 11, was on a school residential trip on Dartmoor in Devon when her leg got trapped between enormous granite boulders on Hound Tor on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
With parting the sea for “The Ten Commandments” and then the boulders coming down the hill during the rockslide?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
But as I crossed a rocky section with some loose boulders, I worried one wrong jerk could send me tumbling, so I dialed down the power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Stream engineering aims to improve habitats and water flow, for example by building dams or placing boulders in a stream, and these efforts have cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the years.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
I walked for nearly an hour before I found a wide stretch of water and a sandy beach, with boulders scattered about.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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"Mending Wall," by Robert Frost
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