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UConn is used to being the boulder, of mowing down anyone and everyone unfortunate enough to be in its path.
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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
Photography by Salva López
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
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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
Photography by Salva López
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
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“Boulder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulder. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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boulder
noun
boul·der
ˈbōl-dər 
: a large detached and rounded or worn mass of rock
Geographical Definition
Boulder
geographical name
Boul·der
ˈbōl-dər
city northwest of Denver in north central Colorado population 97,385
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