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Here’s how: The value of the Higgs field that pervades all of space would have to increase—something physicists liken to rolling a boulder up a hill.—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025 On Thursday, his approach shot went way left — nestling in a little patch of grass between the stream and a boulder.—Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 17 May 2025 Among the sites where Frazier would like to nail one up: the childhood homes of John F. Kennedy and Sonia Sotomayor; the playground where hip-hop found its form; a glacial-erratic boulder that barely escaped Robert Moses’s bulldozers; the scene of a murder that led to a 10-year gang truce.—The Atlantic, 15 May 2025 Photos shared with the Facebook post show her sitting, standing and even napping from atop a boulder.—Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 15 May 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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