statue
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Not far away, Yount was bronzed mid-swing as a statue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The imagery associated with the unassembled statue is intriguing, too—pictures of the head or the lamp, waiting patiently in a workshop or a park, play with our sense of scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
"It goes beyond having decent toilets in schools," lycée student Alcidor says in Paris, under the statue of Marianne at Place de la République, a place synonymous with protest.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The statue of Ben Ali, a thoroughbred stallion who won the race at Churchill Downs in 1886, was reported stolen Wednesday, the Sacramento Police Department said in a press release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Members still place thousands of paper cranes beneath Sadako’s statue on August 6—Peace Day.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
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“Pluribus” star Rhea Seehorn finally won the best actress statues that long eluded her, and series creator Vince Gilligan scored a writing Emmy.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Self said she had set out to put an ordinary contemporary Londoner on a site more usually associated with statues of monarchs and military commanders.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Amid statues and posters of the Virgen de Guadalupe was a rosary that a man had made of hardened bread during his months in an immigration detention facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
There, statues of the poet have been dismantled as symbols of Russian imperialism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The shore doesn’t look nearly as clean as the Sands of Asase—broken concrete, ruined golden statues, and stained-glass shards litter the sand.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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