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
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
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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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