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stele

[stee-lee, steel, steel, stee-lee] / ˈsti li, stil, stil, ˈsti li /




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

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

The room’s most impressive object is a 5th century BC carved marble stele, 8 feet tall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

The stele was handed over to the Turkish ambassador to Italy for return to Turkey.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

In dicot roots, the xylem and phloem of the stele are arranged alternately in an X shape, whereas in monocot roots, the vascular tissue is arranged in a ring around the pith.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

I mumbled something about trying harder, while Mr. Brunner took one long sad look at the stele, like hed been at this girl’s funeral.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens.

From Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde

The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens. 

From Miscellanies by Robert Ross

Dr. Strzygowski gives similarly shaped stelai from Alexandria and Cairo, with incised awkward scrolls, and some of Arab date.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Most impressive, the refurbished mosaics and a wall of 760 fragments of funerary steles.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

It consists of a field of massive gray steles designed to communicate sorrow, accompanied by an underground information center.

From Time ● Sep. 19, 2014

Ms. Vitale’s repurposed rails feel in this context like grave steles or memorials.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2014

He also goes around to famous mountains, where they erect steles, stone monuments, which say that the Emperor's realm is now totally unified.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2012

We may instance two steles discovered at Epidaurus in 1885, bearing accounts of forty-four temple cures.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone


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