boulder
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One man rides a draft horse dragging a wooden harrow, weighted down by a boulder, to break up the soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
He also provided entertainment, including a child playing Beethoven on piano outside the boulder, for people who flocked to the conventions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Larger incoming objects, such as boulder sized rocks that create especially bright flashes, are known as bolides or fireballs.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
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
We walked past the hill, crossed the stream, and headed toward the trees in the back, where a large boulder sat between several trunks.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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Towering granite boulders smoothed over millions of years frame powder-white sand and turquoise water so clear it looks tinted: That’s Anse Source d’Argent, one of the Seychelles’ dozens of beaches scattered across 115 islands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Soon they’d fill with water, and with what writer McPhee called “rock porridge,” a cold rolling lava of mud and debris and boulders the size of Volkswagens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Photographs shared by the disaster office showed workers wading through churned mud and navigating vast boulders left by the floods.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Early in his career Noguchi was identified as a sculptor, known for modernist abstractions—enigmas in wood, stone, metals, plaster, ceramic and aluminum—that conjure totems, boulders, edifices and artifacts, while synthesizing Western and Eastern traditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
She was marching across a wide sandy plain, dotted with boulders and seagrass.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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