as in milestone
a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs
typically, people feel that turning 21 is a landmark in one's life
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Recent Examples of landmark
Questers keep history alive through education, preservation of meaningful places and by funding the restoration of historic landmarks.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
The Vaillancourt Fountain, a nearly forty-foot-high tangle of boxy concrete tubes, has long divided public opinion and has attracted attention as a landmark both locally and internationally.
—News Desk, Artforum, 6 Nov. 2025
According to Google, Gemini analyzes data on 250 million places and compares it with Street View images to find the most visible and useful landmarks.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
Best Things to Do Tour Cristo Redentor and other landmarks.
—Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
The Vaillancourt Fountain, a nearly forty-foot-high tangle of boxy concrete tubes, has long divided public opinion and has attracted attention as a landmark both locally and internationally.
—News Desk, Artforum, 6 Nov. 2025
According to Google, Gemini analyzes data on 250 million places and compares it with Street View images to find the most visible and useful landmarks.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
Best Things to Do Tour Cristo Redentor and other landmarks.
—Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landmark
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In a first for the China Space Station, crew members from the Shenzhou-20 and Shenzhou-21 missions have used a new oven to cook and enjoy a space barbecue, marking a milestone in comfort and innovation aboard the station.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Global Times compared the cooking milestone to one notched aboard the ISS in 2019, when NASA astronauts baked cookies in space using a prototype Zero G oven.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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But for the two-hour show’s climax, stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo veered deliciously off-topic to cover a medley of songs first made famous 62 years ago by Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Some areas, like a beach that plays a major role in the climax, are based on real places and drew from the plants and fish that are there in real life.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
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The species was once found south of the border in the Rio Sonoyta, but since groundwater pumping has depleted the river, there has been no observable population in the watershed.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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GLP-1s, which act on the brain and the body's hormones to help suppress hunger and slow digestion, are considered a watershed in Americans' long struggle to address obesity and related diseases.—
Yuki Noguchi,
NPR,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Landmark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landmark. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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