Mount Rushmore
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after businessman Charles E. Rushmore (1857–1931).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- A famous mountain in the Black Hills with the heads of four US presidents carved into it.
Noun[edit]
Mount Rushmore (plural Mount Rushmores)
- (by extension) The four most important people in a particular field or category.
- 2020 March 27, Cade Metz, “The Week in Tech: We’re Testing How Much the Internet Can Handle”, in New York Times[1]:
- In the long run, the companies behind all this technology could emerge from the pandemic as an even greater force in our lives. So said a Mount Rushmore of Times tech reporters: Daisuke Wakabayashi, Jack Nicas, Steve Lohr and Mike Isaac.
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Further reading[edit]
- Mount Rushmore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia