boulder
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Cycle in the jungle Rent a bike on the largely car-free island of La Digue and ride along jungle paths, ending at world-famous boulder beaches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Homeowners in Dana Point are working to install emergency protection from the onslaught of waves, including a boulder barrier, according to the statement from the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
I watch my 10 year old daughter Zena races through heather nearby, building boulder bridges over a cold stream, clinging to my brother as the Etive Mòr and Black Mount mountains rise behind them.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
The boulder, roughly the size of a pickup truck, tumbled off into the fog like it had important business elsewhere.
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
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
At the Hissing Stones, she had to leave the wagon and carry everything over the black boulders to the cave.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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