boulder
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Olympic rock climbing champion Toby Roberts - who won gold in the boulder and lead event at Paris 2024 - was also made an MBE on Tuesday.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
The Zunis rained stones down on the invaders; one well-aimed boulder struck Coronado’s helmet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
"It's not a piece of dust, but it's not a meter-size boulder, either."
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
Using this information, the AI identified important surface features such as bedrock, outcrops, boulder fields, and sand ripples.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
A fox barked from a boulder and vanished into a thicket, fearful for his own safety.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
On a hike in 2005, Flod came across a truck tire lodged between two boulders in Malibu Creek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Shannon, 11, was on a school residential trip on Dartmoor in Devon when her leg got trapped between enormous granite boulders on Hound Tor on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Stream engineering aims to improve habitats and water flow, for example by building dams or placing boulders in a stream, and these efforts have cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the years.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
A giant atrium was planned inside the structure where hologram images of spaceships and floating boulders whiz by visitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
The archaeologists instructed the divers to dig tunnels under the boulders and to tie strong ropes around them several times.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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