megalith

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Recent Examples of megalith 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 Each generation created their own megalith, Golis said, and would typically hold a single burial that would be surrounded by grave goods and sometimes covered in cobblestones. Irene Wright july 14, Miami Herald, 14 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 If the name of the game in a gold rush is selling shovels, there are few shovel makers in either e-sports or VR gaming capable of competing with the online retail megalith. IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2016 See All Example Sentences for megalith
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Noun
  • From 1882 to 1887, miners extracted some of the largest and most beautiful stones from the Padar region of Kashmir, before the deposit was eventually exhausted.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Within minutes, guests can be standing beneath the stone arches of Arches National Park, 4 miles away, or surveying mesas and buttes in Canyonlands National Park, 30 miles southwest, where the Colorado and Green rivers have carved the landscape for centuries.
    Cari Shane, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The relief was most likely an adornment on the outside of a royal monument.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That monument, erected in 1892, finally found a new home earlier this year in the Lost in New Haven Museum, NBC Connecticut reported.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What’s more Halloween-y than a cookie recipe on a tombstone?
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The next scene features teenagers stealing the tombstone from Ed's grave, before the episode concludes on a quiet note.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The category is not a monolith but a broad network of interlinked subgenres, which rise and fall in popularity as readers’ tastes shift.
    Rebecca Ackermann, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Slackers aren’t a monolith, these films suggest, and their creed is more than just a hipster variant of laziness.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Ferndale, California, Christine and her husband are doing pre-planning and have already purchased and engraved their gravestones in a beautiful cemetery.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Daniella Santoro, a PhD candidate at Tulane University, never expected to find an ancient Roman gravestone in her backyard, but that’s exactly what happened one day in March as her husband was doing yardwork.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025

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