monument
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He joked it should be renamed after him and spent considerable time discussing Washington, D.C. construction projects and resurrecting conspiracy theories about monument vandals.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Police detained six activists who had draped Greenpeace protest banners from a monument on Jakarta's central Bundaran HI roundabout on Tuesday morning, before the student marches, according to Jeanny Sirait, a campaigner for the NGO.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
And not to be outdone, XPeng touted a test of autonomous-driving technology it conducted around the Arc de Triomphe, the 19th century monument commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte on the Champs-Elysées.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Rushmore scene was filmed on a miniature version of the monument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
There was no longer any monument to her disgrace.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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There are great musical monuments to historical upheavals, but vanishingly few were written during the events they depict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
It is felt most strongly in the memorial garden on the site of the fallen school, and among the white arched monuments of the cemetery.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The East Potomac facility, which offers the public affordable green fees near Washington’s famous monuments, has been open for more than a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Juxtaposing Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments and recent art, “Monuments” challenges white supremacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Here were people who made a living pitching tents or lying in a fetal position before our national monuments.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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