megaliths

plural of megalith

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Noun
  • The bride wore a custom Oscar de la Renta gown featuring 14 yards of Chantilly lace appliqués and hand-embroidered with pearls and diamanté stones.
    Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
  • Each piece is unique, made with tools such as vintage letterpress stamps, Japanese glass seed beads, and the maker’s personal collection of precious and semiprecious stones.
    RS Editors, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • While buildings and monuments safeguard the past, McGee believes the future of Kansas City jazz ultimately rests with the musicians themselves.
    J.M. Banks June 29, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026
  • Within a few years of Euromaidan, the Ukrainian government had outlawed Soviet symbols, including monuments to Lenin.
    Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • The winning model here is a coordinated platform ecosystem, not fragmented vendors or rigid monoliths.
    Miroslav Katsarov, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial Impressive stone carvings at Mount Rushmore—as well as at Crazy Horse Memorial, still under construction—are more than memorable monoliths.
    Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Many of the gravestones were moved to Alder Brook and West Cemetery and remain there today.
    Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • Haunted Mansion props on the parade floats will include the conservatory casket, cryptic gravestones, gargoyle candleholders, haunted armor and stretching room portraits, according to the concept art.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The skies are gloomy and overcast, fitting for a trip among the tombstones.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • The Pontiac Gazette newspaper in Oakland County reported storm damage included apple and peach trees uprooted or twisted, churches destroyed, and cemetery tombstones blown down.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • While dismantling the graveyard, in 1824, the headstones were removed, but the bodies remained.
    Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • Hudspeth and other volunteers took over the cleanup by picking up leaves and fallen branches and cleaning broken and toppled headstones.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • The line was marked then, as now, by obelisks, 276 of them today, placed roughly within view of one another from El Paso west to the Pacific Ocean ‒ an early attempt to harden the line in the sand.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026
  • Only in the late 19th century did the United States and Mexico demarcate the international line with small stone obelisks that looked like miniature Washington monuments.
    Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
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“Megaliths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/megaliths. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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