mantel
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After China took up the mantel as mediator, the two sides agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
It’s for the mantel, for our boys,’” Song revealed.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
In the once-bare space above the bedroom’s mantel, which holds a Louis XVI-style clock, gold-framed pictures and miniatures of family members and friends hang.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Phil to take the mantel of the storied New York Philharmonic, his Mahler is neither overly exuberant nor constrained by grief and Berliner decorum.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
Over the mantel was a small photograph of Baby and a colored picture of a little boy in velvet holding a ball in his hands.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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