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Hoover Dam

British

noun

Former name (1933–47): Boulder Dam. a dam in the western US, on the Colorado River on the border between Nevada and Arizona; forms Lake Mead. Height: 222 m (727 ft). Length: 354 m (1180 ft)

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It’s just a really big flag with bright lights, draped on Hoover Dam for the next several weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

They also saw various quarries as well as the Hoover Dam.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

Now, 1 gigawatt, which the Energy Department once noted was roughly half the power generated by the Hoover Dam, seems paltry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

The colossal Hoover Dam, along the Nevada–Arizona border, transformed 1.5 million acres of scrub into farmland—and tamed the flood-prone Colorado River too.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2024

Then I thought about Rachel Elizabeth Dare, and the special ability she’d shown last winter at Hoover Dam.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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