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Recent Examples of megalithScattered among the heaping red rock hills of the Pilbara lies the world’s densest collection of petroglyphs and megaliths.—
Michelle Tchea,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026 In contrast to the rectilinear blocks at Stonehenge, the Stenness megaliths are thin slabs with angled upper edges, like upside-down guillotine blades.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025 Chief among these was the sacrifice of childhood upon the altar of commerce, performed by such capitalistic megaliths as Disney, whose Mickey Mouse figured prominently in his oeuvre.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
24 Nov. 2025 Not many entertainment studios can say they’re successively owned by a media company, a dialup power player, a media company again, a telecom megalith, a cable giant and a software scion.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for megalith
The resulting low-slung structure is clad in understated materials, with a sloping bronze-colored roof, stone chimney, expansive glazing, and teak siding.
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David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
27 Aug. 2026
But the stone is so historically infamous that locals know it as Ínség-szikla—the Rock of Starvation.
Haunted Mansion props on the parade floats will include the conservatory casket, cryptic gravestones, gargoyle candleholders, watchful busts, haunted armor and stretching room portraits.
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Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
18 Aug. 2026
Almost like gravestones etched with the years of a life, they were marked with the diameter of the trees that had once stood there.