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Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
There are no lifeguards on duty at the quarry’s swimming holes, according to Stearns County Parks.
Stearns County is about a 90-mile drive northwest from Minneapolis.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
Eleven thousand years ago, for instance, foragers quarried and hauled huge stone pillars to erect ceremonial structures at Gobekli Tepe, in present-day Turkey.
—Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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Noun
Sparta residents also worry that the railroad would permit the expansion of a nearby quarry that generates noise and dust.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
There are no lifeguards on duty at the quarry’s swimming holes, according to Stearns County Parks.
Stearns County is about a 90-mile drive northwest from Minneapolis.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
Verb
The building's stone foundations were quarried from the hills around town and the brick was fired in nearby Cottonwood.
—Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
Eleven thousand years ago, for instance, foragers quarried and hauled huge stone pillars to erect ceremonial structures at Gobekli Tepe, in present-day Turkey.
—Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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“Quarry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarry. Accessed 22 Oct. 2024.
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