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statue

[stach-oo] / ˈstætʃ u /


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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

“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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