monument
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Police detained six activists who had draped Greenpeace protest banners from a monument on Jakarta's central Bundaran HI roundabout on Tuesday morning, before the student marches, according to Jeanny Sirait, a campaigner for the NGO.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
It’s no wonder that, when she meets someone who can bridge that gap, she wants to make a monument of it — be it a business, a marriage, a film or a profession of love.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The man Christopher Nolan calls the greatest filmmaker who ever lived now has his monument: “The Complete Kubrick,” a 30-disc, $600 boxed set of 4K Blu-Ray editions of all 13 features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Rushmore scene was filmed on a miniature version of the monument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In beautiful seaside Jableh she’d seen the homes that Zeitoun’s grandfather had built, saw the monument to his brother Mohammed.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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Mr. Barnes calls Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, “a hostile city with no public transport and nothing but mad monuments to recommend it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The East Potomac facility has been open for more than a century, offering the public affordable green fees in a picturesque setting close to Washington’s famous monuments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Juxtaposing Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments and recent art, “Monuments” challenges white supremacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It applies to monuments and architecture, but also works of art and books, requiring states to safeguard and respect cultural property and refrain from any actions that might endanger it.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
I remembered the huge white monuments poking up above the heads around me.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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