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Recent Examples of quarries
Hugo Rojo, AJC.com, 3 Mar. 2026
During Limestone Month each June, the quarries are open for a limited time for tours.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2026
At the Degemar quarries, drilled down to 30 meters (yards) under sea level, bright blue ponds of sulfur springs pool the travertine residue as flat-bed trucks haul stone slabs weighing 33 tons up to street level.
—ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
Rosedale was once known for its quarries and mines.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The hotel features zero-kilometer materials, including Dolomia stone from Val Belluna quarries and larch wood, typical of Ampezzano construction.
—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
The recycled soils will be reused for local construction, which can reduce landfill waste, truck traffic and dependence on rural quarries.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
Materially, the team anchored the home in a quiet, almost monastic palette of limestone handpicked in the quarries outside of Valencia, Spain, and oak for warmth.
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2026
Its quarries are concentrated in high-growth regions similar to MLM, where materials can’t be shipped in easily, giving the company local pricing power.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
Over the course of the last six months, McBrien and the AJC team traveled to the small town of Elberton for an investigation that led them to granite quarries, graves, a swatting raid and a deep dive in explosives.
—Hugo Rojo, AJC.com, 3 Mar. 2026
During Limestone Month each June, the quarries are open for a limited time for tours.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2026
At the Degemar quarries, drilled down to 30 meters (yards) under sea level, bright blue ponds of sulfur springs pool the travertine residue as flat-bed trucks haul stone slabs weighing 33 tons up to street level.
—ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
Rosedale was once known for its quarries and mines.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The hotel features zero-kilometer materials, including Dolomia stone from Val Belluna quarries and larch wood, typical of Ampezzano construction.
—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
The recycled soils will be reused for local construction, which can reduce landfill waste, truck traffic and dependence on rural quarries.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
Materially, the team anchored the home in a quiet, almost monastic palette of limestone handpicked in the quarries outside of Valencia, Spain, and oak for warmth.
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2026
Its quarries are concentrated in high-growth regions similar to MLM, where materials can’t be shipped in easily, giving the company local pricing power.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarries
Noun
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Every few seconds, the wolf almost imperceptibly shifts its head, as if scanning the horizon for predators or prey.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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Ultimately, many of these books’ characters are portrayed as avatars of resentment and disaffection, men who seem to fall prey to the rigid vision of masculinity dispensed by real-life adherents to the manosphere.—
Eric Magnuson,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The film at least mines some charm from a fender-bender as a meet-cute.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Trumps’ first windfall since my August tally occurred through American Bitcoin, a company that mines new bitcoin with the intent to hoard it.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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From droppings-mimicking spiders in Borneo to a tiny gecko tucked under bark in India, these creatures have been quietly perfecting their disguises while science is only now catching up — one DNA barcode, one micro-CT scan at a time.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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The findings, published in the journal Nature, reveal a world recovering from devastation and teeming with strange, soft-bodied creatures whose delicate features were frozen in stone with astonishing detail.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Quarries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarries. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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