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monument

[mon-yuh-muhnt, mon-yuh-ment] / ˈmɒn jə mənt, ˈmɒn jəˌmɛnt /


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In 2025, he recorded his best finish of second in the other monument - Paris-Roubaix.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

A stele monument was erected in 2024 to commemorate the victims of the Hirtenberg camp.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

For years, researchers have debated why the name of the Assyrian king originally associated with the monument was overwritten with the name of another "Tiglath-pileser."

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

In a realistic 1870s monument for a member of the Piaggio family, a dead man’s widow, shown leaving the door of a tomb, is wearing an elaborate lace shawl and mourning through her sculpted eyelashes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Harry S Truman High School, set on a slight incline, is a monument to utility, neither inviting nor forbidding.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

As for enduring monuments, Elvis fanatics have Graceland, Beatles obsessives have Abbey Road, but Dolly?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

The Israeli military said it had approved a tour of monuments in the area for Sukkot and was providing security.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Neighborhoods commission the monuments, build the barracas, prepare the food, and turn valuable public space into temporary headquarters.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Yet while there are monuments in the nation’s capital for Washington and Jefferson, there is no memorial to the Adamses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

I turned back and took another long look around the room, surveying the long line of monuments to the history of computing and videogames.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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