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Recent Examples of megalith
Liberal-leaning television networks were a megalith, and First Amendment-protected besides.
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
See the 4,500-year-old megaliths of Stonehenge, followed by late afternoon tea and scones in the English coastal town of Southampton, the port from which the Mayflower set sail.
—AFAR Media, 29 July 2025
Other new inductees include mysterious granite megaliths in Brittany, France, and petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream in South Korea.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025
Using advanced methods of data collection and dating techniques, archaeologists now have new insights into the precise date and possible function of the Carnac megaliths.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2025
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Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
See the 4,500-year-old megaliths of Stonehenge, followed by late afternoon tea and scones in the English coastal town of Southampton, the port from which the Mayflower set sail.
—AFAR Media, 29 July 2025
Other new inductees include mysterious granite megaliths in Brittany, France, and petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream in South Korea.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025
Using advanced methods of data collection and dating techniques, archaeologists now have new insights into the precise date and possible function of the Carnac megaliths.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for megalith
Noun
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Its owners have expanded their impact and influence to the nearby community to limit development and maintain its cultural identity, which includes restoring and caring for the historic stone buildings from the salt trade era.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Apr. 2026
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But the signature feature was a set of eighteen grass-and-stone basins that gather rain and, on calm days, gather people.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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For all the thunderclap significance of 1848, Seneca Falls is a monument to women’s patience and frustration, and to the friendships that were needed to sustain their movement through the decades ahead.—
Beverly Gage,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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Some 30,000 faithful gathered outside the pagan monument, following the stations as they were recited over loudspeakers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In 1975, the museum purchased his work Georgia Gate, a structure of fluidly bent pine staves inspired by photos of Georgia tombstones the artist saw in musicologist Marshall Stearns’s 1970 book The Story of Jazz.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 Mar. 2026
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Last year, the City Council approved an ordinance to offer rewards for information involving theft of city plaques, tombstones, statues, light standards, and copper wire, and theft of metals linked to the Sixth Street Bridge.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The monolith has cracked, giving way to a market that demands differentiation.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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The horrors under the monoliths’ shimmering surfaces remind us to look at the land, then look deeper.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Dozens of Irish names can also be found on gravestones in the town cemetery.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Many gravestones were broken and lay crumbled on the ground.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Megalith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/megalith. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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