graven
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The difference here is that Jackson’s intended audience—which, again, includes the vast majority of Americans who do not keep a graven image of Antonin Scalia in their homes—does not take assertions like this seriously anymore.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2024
Those included condemnation of just the sort of graven imagery his son would later master for the Church of Rome and its royal cohorts in Habsburg Spain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.
From The Verge ● Feb. 4, 2019
Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017
The center was domed with two slots graven into either slope.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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