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boulder

[bohl-der] / ˈboʊl dər /
NOUN
megalith
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Glassock describes the facilitator’s job as pushing a boulder: “It’s hardest when it’s yet to move,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

"It was just timing. The boulder that actually took Jack, it could have gone in a week's time, a year's time - it just happened to go then and there."

From BBC May 26, 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

The weight of her gaze is heavier than a boulder.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

"VAR was introduced to, in Fifa's terminology, not to look for pebbles but look for boulders," former Scottish Premiership referee Bobby Madden told 5 Live.

From BBC May 14, 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

I grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., where my family lived in a one-story, brown-stucco house that had mostly boulders and dirt in the backyard.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

We maneuver over slick boulders and smooth white driftwood logs.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day




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