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Recent Examples of megalith
Small countries can’t be expected to invest in the same capacity as megaliths like China and the United States.
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Leon Gordon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Many of these visitors flock to the site on solstices and equinoxes: On those four dates each year, the barrier surrounding the megalith is lowered and visitors can move freely among the stones.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The legendary theater mom at the center of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim’s 1959 musical megalith always looms large, but in the current Broadway iteration, Gypsy is entirely and inarguably Rose’s show, in ways both compelling and frustrating.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Given the geographical features of Britain and the forested nature of the island at the time, transporting megaliths over land would have been extremely challenging.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Leon Gordon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Many of these visitors flock to the site on solstices and equinoxes: On those four dates each year, the barrier surrounding the megalith is lowered and visitors can move freely among the stones.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The legendary theater mom at the center of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim’s 1959 musical megalith always looms large, but in the current Broadway iteration, Gypsy is entirely and inarguably Rose’s show, in ways both compelling and frustrating.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Given the geographical features of Britain and the forested nature of the island at the time, transporting megaliths over land would have been extremely challenging.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for megalith
Noun
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Set in Medieval England in the year 1348, the story alights on Lansley Abbey, a remote stone monastery in Yorkshire, which houses ten monks bound by a life of strict routine and devotion.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
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The city of Irvine will move forward with its review of plans to build 3,100 homes on and around the site of the Oak Creek Golf Club, but nothing will be set in stone for quite some time.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Oc Register,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Yes, there were disputes over Confederate monuments and America’s sins versus America’s promise, but there was also a palpable impatience with history, as if people were afraid of its power to bog you down.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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The remote Galápagos Islands of the Pacific, about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, have no historic monuments, only a handful of human settlements and the barest smattering of amenities such as restaurants and shops.—
Robin Catalano,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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Nearby tombstones have been defaced as well — with arrows pointing visitors toward 'Jim' — though cemetery staff have wiped them clean and erected metal barricades to curb unauthorized tributes.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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Belinda Mott, whose sister Juanita Mott’s remains were found in the Wests’ cellar, is seen visiting her sister’s tombstone.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Students are not a monolith, of course, and many would not participate—nor should universities look at their students merely as potential protesters who might serve university interests.—
Ars Staff,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2025
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The release-date move leaves Universal’s monolith Jurassic World Rebirth on July 2 and an Angel Studios untitled movie on July 4, with Warner Bros/DC Studios’ Superman from James Gunn opening July 11.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2025
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The audit also noted a Jewish cemetery in Waterbury that was vandalized with more than 12 gravestones desecrated.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
22 Apr. 2025
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After a successful fundraising campaign led by the Friends of the Hyde Park Branch Library, gravestones were finally installed for Crumpler and Arthur in 2020, 125 years after her death.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Megalith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/megalith. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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