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Some treat your fragile items like King Kong treats boulders.—Marni Jameson, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2025 The mudslide sent rivers of mud, boulders and debris that flattened homes and left 23 people dead in its wake.—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025 Over three hours, small groups navigate a challenging underground world, scrambling over boulders, belly-crawling through narrow passages, and squeezing through tight spaces to discover hidden marble wonders.—Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025 We were situated in an immense valley peppered with boulders and desert agave plants—the site, Mikkelsen told me, of a winter village of the Kumeyaay people, who have inhabited the region for more than 10,000 years.—Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boulder
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Etymology
short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulder ston, partial translation of a word of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialect bullersten large stone in a stream, from buller noise + sten stone
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