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Recent Examples of quarries
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
This all-new podcast takes listeners to the small town of Elberton, GA and on a wild ride through granite quarries, graves, cults, Confederate monuments, a swatting raid, and A LOT of explosives.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
One of the largest hard rock quarries in the Western United States, the quarry has been a key source of building materials for the Bay Area and Central Coast for the past 126 years.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Gravel is a mixture of small natural rock fragments that are sourced from quarries or riverbeds.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
Rusting quarries at the mouth of Azusa Canyon.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Across the highway, huge trucks and bulldozers rumble through the dirt entrance leading to the Rinker plant where limestone quarries produce high grade rock products.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Be sure to visit one of the former tufa quarries, with their impressively huge caverns.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
The marble that makes up the bathrooms comes from nearby quarries; some have marble from a nearby quarry, and others have the same reddish marble used at Le Petit Trianon at Versailles.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
This all-new podcast takes listeners to the small town of Elberton, GA and on a wild ride through granite quarries, graves, cults, Confederate monuments, a swatting raid, and A LOT of explosives.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
One of the largest hard rock quarries in the Western United States, the quarry has been a key source of building materials for the Bay Area and Central Coast for the past 126 years.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Gravel is a mixture of small natural rock fragments that are sourced from quarries or riverbeds.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
Rusting quarries at the mouth of Azusa Canyon.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Across the highway, huge trucks and bulldozers rumble through the dirt entrance leading to the Rinker plant where limestone quarries produce high grade rock products.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Be sure to visit one of the former tufa quarries, with their impressively huge caverns.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarries
Noun
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When any peripheral ray makes initial contact with a potential prey item, the mole immediately reorients to center subsequent touches on ray 11.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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As offshore waters warm, humpback whales are increasingly following that prey closer to shore, where California’s Dungeness crab fishery operates.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
Verb
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In addition to following and sharing insights from forecasting firms, the team mines social media, pop culture and television, runway collections, people watching and more to determine where style is headed.—
SJ Studio,
Footwear News,
14 May 2026
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Her decision to wear such a prominent spring runway piece was certainly a style switch-up for Clooney, who typically mines the archives for rarer, one-of-a-kind garments in the spotlight.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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For all of these creatures, the coast’s patchwork of barrier islands, beaches, sandbars, salt marshes, tidal creeks and estuaries are vitally important for survival.—
Charles Seabrook,
AJC.com,
16 May 2026
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The slick creatures, with their blunt heads and whiskers, are sometimes easy to spot in the water, but the restaurants that have perfected eating them are a bit harder to find.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
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“Quarries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarries. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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