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UConn is used to being the boulder, of mowing down anyone and everyone unfortunate enough to be in its path.—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025 Designed by Javier Barba, the home has a new owner who is reimagining a second life for the Spanish jewel
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March 15, 2025
The existing granite boulders on the site were part of the home’s final design, creating a facade of broken concrete and gravel.—Noelia Terrón-Laya, Architectural Digest, 15 Mar. 2025 Initial sketches suggest a bridge assembled with enormous, jutting boulders.—Miles Socha, WWD, 13 Mar. 2025 The footprints were likely imprinted onto the boulder as the dinosaurs passed across a patch of wet, white clay, possibly walking along or crossing a waterway during the Early Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago, Romilio said.—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boulder
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Etymology
short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulder ston, partial translation of a word of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialect bullersten large stone in a stream, from buller noise + sten stone
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