granite
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US President Donald Trump has continued his makeover of the White House, adding a statue of Christopher Colombus and laying new black granite paving stones on the famed West Wing colonnade.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Beneath Pine Island Glacier lies an enormous buried granite mass, nearly 100 km wide and 7 km thick, roughly half the size of Wales in the UK.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026
But they don’t detect a brief touch on the granite itself.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
Both incidents were a case of a lingering finger falling on to the granite after the handle was released, rather than a deliberate touch, so no suggestion of devious intent.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
Wet sand and granite flakes were applied to the surface of the obelisk and we were told to rub our stone against the obelisk over and over again.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing granite
Earth Science - Middle School
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Earth Science - High School
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