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If constructed, it will be topped with gilded bald eagles and an angelic Lady Liberty; its speckless white-marble columns will be wide enough to obstruct sight lines to the Lincoln Memorial.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

This document often displays hundreds of lines and dozens of columns of jargon-encrusted data in type so small it looks like the lowest line of that eye chart in your optometrist’s office.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Advice columns, although anonymous, are not immune to this particular trend and, in fact, rely upon it.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

For crucial scenes portraying the palace hallway in Egypt, where Moses talks to the Pharaoh, they built cardboard boxes as the columns in the palace, and “reskinned” them with intricate carvings using AI.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Below them, in a sheltered depression like a moon crater, stood a ring of broken black marble columns surrounding a dark stone altar.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan