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Similarly, instead of modifying the landscape, McGuire integrated it into the pad’s design—a bridged walkway passes through two massive granite boulders, leading the way to the front door, and the office/guest room features an integrated desk, with a boulder protruding through a wall of glass.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2025 How do boulders express their autobiographies to geologists?—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2025 Inside the Jardin des Tuileries and in time to Robert Wilson’s choreography, models walked beneath a prehistoric flying bird and enormous boulders descended from the ceiling, over hot lava projected onto the ground, and around icebergs emerging from the floor.—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025 Huge boulders aren’t exactly in high supply in the grassy plains on which Stonehenge was built.—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boulder
Word History
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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