stone

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When AFP visited, explosions rang repeatedly through the burning hot air, as blasts split stone for mining.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Ch Supt Adam Hays had previously said Sussex Police would "leave no stone unturned" in their investigation.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

The last verse of the song says it all: “You know that flag flying over the courthouse means certain things are set in stone / Who we are, what we’ll do and what we won’t.”

From Salon • May 28, 2026

We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

At its foot, guarded by a solitary yew tree, was a cavern of darkness like a silent scream: a gaping stone mouth.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver