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Noun
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The set includes chandelier earrings a ring and two bracelets with different cuts of stones.—
Lisa Gutierrez
May 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2026 -
The traditional dish is laplap, made by grating cassava or taro, mixing it with coconut milk, wrapping it in banana leaves and slow-cooking it over hot stones in an earthen oven.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Trump is also using government money to build monuments for himself.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
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The idea of a waiting period is common for monuments and memorials.—
Kelsey Ables,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial Impressive stone carvings at Mount Rushmore—as well as at Crazy Horse Memorial, still under construction—are more than memorable monoliths.—
Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
14 May 2026
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In the garden, his massive stone monoliths seem almost prehistoric.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 May 2026
Noun
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On the paths between gravestones are colored footprints, as if left by cartoon characters.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The tornado ripped off roofs, flattened trees and toppled gravestones at the Belton Cemetery.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Workmen are erecting identical marble tombstones.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating vandalism at Old Memphis Cemetery in Palmetto, where deputies say 17 grave sites were damaged with broken and knocked-down headstones, graffiti and damaged concrete.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2026
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The expedition buried only three members — those who died during the first year — with identifying headstones.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Trellises, obelisks and arbors add a dimension that plantings alone cannot achieve.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
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Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Megaliths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/megaliths. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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