touchstone
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As more Americans visited China in the following decades, “The Sound of Music” became a common cultural touchstone.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
They’re also, according to Dominican American filmmaker Joel Alfonso Vargas, an underground cultural touchstone, one he became familiar with as a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
By the 1970s, Bloomingdale’s had become a cultural touchstone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Founded by storyteller Anant Pai after he noticed children on a quiz show knew more about Greek gods than their own mythological heroes, ACK quickly became a cultural touchstone.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing touchstone
50th Anniversary of the March on Washington: "Trying to Inspire a New Generation" by Trip Gabriel
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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