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Noun
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These cannot be broken by normal stones.—
Mayu Saini,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2026 -
After fighting to find their way back to one another, Henry and Julia were at the standing stones of Craig Na Dun, hoping to return to their own time, and Brian and Ellen’s romantic escape was interrupted as the 1715 Jacobite Rising began, thrusting the clans into war.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Sinha and director of photography Ewan Mulligan chose the city’s grime and density over its monuments and parkways.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
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Those imperial cults of personality, and many of their monuments, lasted no longer than the short period of their rule.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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The film’s speculative elements — monoliths accelerating human evolution — were philosophical rather than scientific.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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With the thieves and vandals digging up gravestones and stealing plaques made of precious metals, Bishop has spent an extraordinary amount of money on repairs, security and maintenance.—
Nicole Comstock,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Many gravestones were broken and lay crumbled on the ground.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 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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Beneath the headstones and quiet walking paths of a cemetery in Ithaca, New York, something incredible has been happening — completely out of sight.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2026
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In January 2024, thieves took more than 700 headstones.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 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 27 Apr. 2026.
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