monument
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It would be emblazoned on movie posters, erected as a promotional monument outside theaters and rendered in plastic as a $70 popcorn holder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The fossil-rich Grand Staircase-Escalante, which covers 1.9 million acres, was established as a monument in 1996 under then-president Bill Clinton.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The monument had long been beset by structural failures and leaks, and Trump has championed the project as part of his bid to beautify the capital city.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The wedding of the second version of Taylor, by contrast, was a monument to her own arrested development.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
The earliest arrivals found places as close as possible to the steps of the great marble monument.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Archaeologist Dr Toby Driver has been racing against the heat to record and study the monuments.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The study may also help explain why the construction of megalithic tombs and other massive stone monuments came to an end across Europe during roughly the same period.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
Pirro vowed to hold to account anyone who damages national monuments and said her office is reviewing about a half-dozen other cases which will be misdemeanors or violations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
And so of all the monuments that war left us, it is the most visible, and our most hopeful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Scattered around the San Lorenzo platform were stone monuments: massive thrones for living kings, huge stone heads for dead ones.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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