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Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon amid the ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a crypt of collector horror comics, and two loyal English Setters.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 3 Jan. 2025
See them In a cathedral crypt, royal treasures that had been hidden and lost for decades were uncovered, revealing a trove of historical artifacts.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
In 1931, a flood damaged the cathedral’s crypt, exposing the three rulers’ coffins.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
On a recent afternoon, Mr. Aguirre and his wife, Blanca Estela Pantaleón, 61, visited their son’s crypt in a church in Saltillo.
—Fred Ramos, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 3 Jan. 2025
See them In a cathedral crypt, royal treasures that had been hidden and lost for decades were uncovered, revealing a trove of historical artifacts.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
In 1931, a flood damaged the cathedral’s crypt, exposing the three rulers’ coffins.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
On a recent afternoon, Mr. Aguirre and his wife, Blanca Estela Pantaleón, 61, visited their son’s crypt in a church in Saltillo.
—Fred Ramos, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crypt
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In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Her husband Robert Sims (Common) leads her and their son to the vault, but the all-knowing voice says only Camille can stay—despite Sims’ endless dedication to the silo, he is not deemed the best person to be the next head of IT.—
Barry Levitt,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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While pulling off the diamond heist of a lifetime, Wilson and Nick become friends by breaking into the most secure vaults in Nice, France’s World Diamond district.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (2024) Vampire Weekend have lost their illusions, buried their remains, and built a memorial to young adulthoods lived in New York, a mausoleum made of towering peaks and charmingly precious lyrics.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2024
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The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians have long felt but could never say aloud during his family’s five-decade dictatorship.—
Raja Abdulrahim,
New York Times,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Crypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypt. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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