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boulder

[bohl-der] / ˈboʊl dər /
NOUN
megalith
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Having squandered the good-will created by Sam Ryder's success, the BBC delegation now has the tricky task of pushing the boulder back up the hill.

From BBC May 17, 2026

"It's not a piece of dust, but it's not a meter-size boulder, either."

From Barron's Apr. 8, 2026

City crews placed a boulder over the manhole cover, a spokesperson who was at the scene Wednesday said but, by the following morning, the boulder had been moved.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 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

All the nerves and guilt and fear that’d been building and sitting heavy as a boulder fell away.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

But as I crossed a rocky section with some loose boulders, I worried one wrong jerk could send me tumbling, so I dialed down the power.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 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

That strip of land is where unhoused people congregated until Evans said she and others complained and the city put up fencing and placed boulders to keep them out.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

In my pocket I had three peach pits from the orchards of Mentana, and four Micro Machine cars to jump over them as if they were boulders.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri




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