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Recent Examples of quarries
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.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
Gravel is a mixture of small natural rock fragments that are sourced from quarries or riverbeds.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 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
Be sure to visit one of the former tufa quarries, with their impressively huge caverns.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
The marble that makes up the bathrooms comes from nearby quarries; some have marble from a nearby quarry, and others have the same reddish marble used at Le Petit Trianon at Versailles.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.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
Gravel is a mixture of small natural rock fragments that are sourced from quarries or riverbeds.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 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
Be sure to visit one of the former tufa quarries, with their impressively huge caverns.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarries
Noun
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Finally, in the Oaxacan field test, the team showed that predatory wasps use the airborne distress signals to find their prey, but the relative importance of direct leaf defenses versus this indirect wasp recruitment isn’t clear.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
3 June 2026
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Gay men were portrayed as both predators and prey, feeding into dangerous stereotypes at a time when the community was fighting for survival.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
2 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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Homeownership feels increasingly out of reach for many Americans, but not for this group of creatures, which slithered into an uninhabited home in Arkansas, much to the chagrin of the realtor trying to sell it.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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Aliens galore Eternia is home to more creatures than just He-Man and Skeletor.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
5 June 2026
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“Quarries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarries. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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