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boulder

[bohl-der] / ˈboʊl dər /
NOUN
megalith
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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

Michael Koman, the show’s other creator, adds: “Generally, running a newspaper is like pushing a boulder uphill.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

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

One fell off the boulder where she’d been perched.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Then it gathers shape and speed: water, mud, boulders, ice and rock surging down the valley.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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

Its stone fireplace comes to rest on what appear to be colossal boulders deposited by the last vagabond glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

We were in a draw with boulders on both sides of the trail.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell




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