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Recent Examples of megalith
Small countries can’t be expected to invest in the same capacity as megaliths like China and the United States.
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Leon Gordon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Many of these visitors flock to the site on solstices and equinoxes: On those four dates each year, the barrier surrounding the megalith is lowered and visitors can move freely among the stones.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The legendary theater mom at the center of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim’s 1959 musical megalith always looms large, but in the current Broadway iteration, Gypsy is entirely and inarguably Rose’s show, in ways both compelling and frustrating.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Given the geographical features of Britain and the forested nature of the island at the time, transporting megaliths over land would have been extremely challenging.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Leon Gordon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Many of these visitors flock to the site on solstices and equinoxes: On those four dates each year, the barrier surrounding the megalith is lowered and visitors can move freely among the stones.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The legendary theater mom at the center of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and Stephen Sondheim’s 1959 musical megalith always looms large, but in the current Broadway iteration, Gypsy is entirely and inarguably Rose’s show, in ways both compelling and frustrating.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Given the geographical features of Britain and the forested nature of the island at the time, transporting megaliths over land would have been extremely challenging.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for megalith
Noun
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The remains were wrapped in textiles and buried alongside corn cobs; pottery fragments; and artifacts made of bone, stone and wood, reports Live Science’s Kristina Killgrove.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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While they were eventually wiped out by the Romans, the remains of their civilization can still be seen throughout the region, none better than at the Samnite archaeological complex located just outside the stone town of Pietrabbondante.—
Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Officials are now working to preserve the historic domes of the monument — built between 532 and 537 AD — from the threat of earthquakes.—
Ashley J. DiMella Fox News,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The following day, an image of a faux Mount Rushmore featuring Eminem, Paul Wall, Russ, and the late Mac Miller (the original rappers proposed to be on the fictional monument) surfaced on social media.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The tombstone has ten lines of inscriptions and identified the man laid to rest inside the tomb, according to the release.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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Some of the surviving houses remained empty for seasons on end in the ’80s, their marquees serving as tombstones for the bombs that had fleetingly awakened them from their slumber.—
Frank Rich,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Modular systems break the monolith into independent components.—
Serge Beck,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Archaeologists from the University of Exeter and Historic England didn’t expect the mysterious enclosure to predate the legendary monolith.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Their lives were modest and so were their graves, marked not with expensive granite but with wooden crosses or metal markers in the shape of traditional gravestones.—
Maria Cramer,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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Lebanon police were called to Cedar Grove Cemetery on July 16, 2022 on a report of gravestones being pushed over and separated from their bases, according to prosecutors.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Megalith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/megalith. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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