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Recent Examples of quarries
Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Throughout the nineteenth century, American sculptors flocked to the Eternal City to be closer to the source—to the abundance of antiquities but also to the Apuan Alps in the north, with their marble quarries.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Marble is ubiquitous, sourced from quarries from Carrara to Sicily, including the Breccia Pontifici, the stone preferred by Bernini, used for the tomb of Pope Urban VIII in St Peter’s Basilica.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
This all-new podcast takes listeners to the small town of Elberton, GA and on a wild ride through granite quarries, graves, cults, Confederate monuments, a swatting raid, and A LOT of explosives.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
One of the largest hard rock quarries in the Western United States, the quarry has been a key source of building materials for the Bay Area and Central Coast for the past 126 years.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Rusting quarries at the mouth of Azusa Canyon.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Across the highway, huge trucks and bulldozers rumble through the dirt entrance leading to the Rinker plant where limestone quarries produce high grade rock products.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
Common to lakes, rivers, and blue holes in Texas Hill Country and Central Texas, clearer, bluer waters can most often be attributed to the abundance of natural deposits and quarries of limestone that are native to the area.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Throughout the nineteenth century, American sculptors flocked to the Eternal City to be closer to the source—to the abundance of antiquities but also to the Apuan Alps in the north, with their marble quarries.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Marble is ubiquitous, sourced from quarries from Carrara to Sicily, including the Breccia Pontifici, the stone preferred by Bernini, used for the tomb of Pope Urban VIII in St Peter’s Basilica.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
This all-new podcast takes listeners to the small town of Elberton, GA and on a wild ride through granite quarries, graves, cults, Confederate monuments, a swatting raid, and A LOT of explosives.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
One of the largest hard rock quarries in the Western United States, the quarry has been a key source of building materials for the Bay Area and Central Coast for the past 126 years.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Rusting quarries at the mouth of Azusa Canyon.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Across the highway, huge trucks and bulldozers rumble through the dirt entrance leading to the Rinker plant where limestone quarries produce high grade rock products.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarries
Noun
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Adult caimans consume a wider variety of prey than younger animals, further increasing their ability to thrive in different habitats.—
Sergio Candido,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Magnificent Frigate-bird — Relentless defensively; hunts by chasing other birds and forcing them to drop their prey.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
Verb
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The writing team mines their own experiences, both as parents and from their own youth, for plot lines.—
Amy Amatangelo,
Parents,
1 June 2026
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In addition to following and sharing insights from forecasting firms, the team mines social media, pop culture and television, runway collections, people watching and more to determine where style is headed.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
18 May 2026
Noun
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What happens in a world where young people are always rendered as creatures of the present, rather than also existing in the past?—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
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Coffin co-directed four of those movies and voices every last one of the yellow creatures himself.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
20 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Quarries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarries. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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