gravel
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Also check the weather; most roads in the monument are dirt or gravel and can become impassable in rain.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
In the tests, the team dropped marbles into sand that contained scattered pieces of painted gravel representing boulders on Dimorphos.
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026
SUVs idle in the gravel shoulders, with camera cables snaking out of their doors and across the asphalt.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
It’s a triangular pebble with smoothed edges that I plucked from a pile of gravel in northern Minnesota.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
After walking on the dusty, compacted gravel floor of the midway for the last three hours, they feel like they’re two sizes bigger than they actually are.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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