monument
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Anchored, via just eight bolts, to a concrete pad a floor below the ground, it’s a mesmerizing monument that feels as if it’s emerging from the earth to burst into space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
It’s no wonder that, when she meets someone who can bridge that gap, she wants to make a monument of it — be it a business, a marriage, a film or a profession of love.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The man Christopher Nolan calls the greatest filmmaker who ever lived now has his monument: “The Complete Kubrick,” a 30-disc, $600 boxed set of 4K Blu-Ray editions of all 13 features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Celebrity Traitors: Can I visit the castle, ride the train and see the unusual monument?
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Then Blackjack took off, circling twice around the monument before disappearing into the clouds.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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Visitors to Ireland are often surprised by the number of prehistoric burial monuments that stand like apparitions beside roaring highways or humming industrial estates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The American impulse of the late 19th century wasn’t to build monuments, but to make money.
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
Juxtaposing Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments and recent art, “Monuments” challenges white supremacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Because of erosion on the Earth, our monuments and artifacts will not, in the natural course of things, survive to the distant future.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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