monument
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“Vandalizing our World War II Memorial is a despicable attack on a sacred monument honoring the Americans who fought and died for our freedom,” Pirro said on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The night tours, which run until 11:00 pm, are sold out and tourists on one visit this week spoke of a "magical" and "romantic" atmosphere in the illuminated monument.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
A cartoonish monument depicting a certain oafish world leader dominates the intersection outside.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
One of his acrylic paintings, featuring two angels soaring above the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. monument, now anchors a larger body of work, “Los Angelitos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
A hub of hydrogen bomb research, the Livermore National Laboratory would be Ernest Lawrence’s final monument.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
People stop to photograph details destined to disappear in the cremà, when the monuments go up in flame.
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
The 'trees that hit the moon' are more than towering natural monuments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
"The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum posted on X. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
In this sense the place was like modern purpose-built political capitals, such as Washington, D.C., or Canberra, Australia, with sanctifying civic monuments to compensate for a lack of real history.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing monument
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