earthwork
Example Sentences
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French artist Marguerite Humeau chose an unusual site for her 2023 earthwork “Orisons.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
“To be honest, it’s hard to evaluate that number,” he says of the study’s earthwork prediction.
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023
Taking into account such variables as temperature, precipitation, soil type, and distance to bodies of water, the researchers estimate that 16,187 earthwork sites remain undiscovered in the Amazon rainforest, they report today in Science.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023
The earthwork should be strong enough to hold back 1 million acre-feet of water, Gatzka said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023
One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
