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Recent Examples of quarries
Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
The Aswan region of stone quarries was the source of some of Egypt’s most famous monuments and the site of long-term power struggles with Kush.
—Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Globally, more than one million children work in mines and quarries.
—Xanthe Scharff, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Easdale was the hub of Scotland’s slate mining industry for much of the 1700s and 1800s, and a wealth of prime skimming stones lies around the island’s defunct, and in some cases, flooded quarries.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 17 Sep. 2025
Meisen says shallow water dives near Papeete also feature small sharks, healthy coral and sea turtles—none of which divers are likely to find in freshwater quarries.
—Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
His team has recorded 800 seismic events using this fiber optic seismic observatory since September 2016, including signals from the recent Mexico earthquake and vibrations from blasting at quarries in the area.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2017
Verb
The Crotch quarries used to have some fifteen hundred workers.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
The Aswan region of stone quarries was the source of some of Egypt’s most famous monuments and the site of long-term power struggles with Kush.
—Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Globally, more than one million children work in mines and quarries.
—Xanthe Scharff, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Easdale was the hub of Scotland’s slate mining industry for much of the 1700s and 1800s, and a wealth of prime skimming stones lies around the island’s defunct, and in some cases, flooded quarries.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 17 Sep. 2025
Meisen says shallow water dives near Papeete also feature small sharks, healthy coral and sea turtles—none of which divers are likely to find in freshwater quarries.
—Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
His team has recorded 800 seismic events using this fiber optic seismic observatory since September 2016, including signals from the recent Mexico earthquake and vibrations from blasting at quarries in the area.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarries
Noun
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Rhincodon typus, to use their scientific name, eat their ample fill by ram filter-feeding, vacuuming up gallons of water to strain out small prey before the water exits their gills.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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When focusing on the vipers’ fangs, the team watched their needle-like teeth sink into the fake prey.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The country also mines about half of the world’s lithium, a mineral critical to the production of electric vehicle batteries.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025
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Beauvoir’s letters show a softer, surprisingly endearing side of the pioneering feminist, and Acocella mines them for the delightful and the dirty.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The clip then hints that the small town is anything but, with disappearances of children, creepy creatures and more lurking in its past and haunting the present.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are being discovered across the planet.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Quarries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarries. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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