boulder
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"It was just timing. The boulder that actually took Jack, it could have gone in a week's time, a year's time - it just happened to go then and there."
From BBC • May 26, 2026
"It's not a piece of dust, but it's not a meter-size boulder, either."
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
City crews placed a boulder over the manhole cover, a spokesperson who was at the scene Wednesday said but, by the following morning, the boulder had been moved.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Like any sensible American trying to move a boulder up a hill, he has lawyers on call.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
He was sitting on a boulder, looking as though his joints might be bothering him.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Vocabulary lists containing boulder
"Mending Wall," by Robert Frost
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