boulder
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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
Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
"It's not a piece of dust, but it's not a meter-size boulder, either."
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
During the third attack, Hazel almost ate a boulder.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
He’s still getting to know the boulders, wooden pilings and shards of rusty metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
As the waves bashed the coast this week, boulders smashed into the piles of Mitchell Leib’s Malibu home, plucking them like a “guitar string” and shaking his house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
Waves broke on boulders, sending white spray up into the twilight.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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"Mending Wall," by Robert Frost
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