as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Comedian/superfan Dana Gould visits the forgotten graveyard where Ed Wood filmed Bela Lugosi’s scenes for Plan 9 from Outer Space.
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Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
Smearing myself with Max Factor blood and crawling around an Arab graveyard at five o’clock in the morning as the sun rose over the pyramids was absolute insanity.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Israel is expanding by turning Gaza into a mass graveyard.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
The Mediterranean Sea is probably the largest graveyard in the world, full of people who didn’t make it.
—Hazlitt, 25 Dec. 2024
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Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
Smearing myself with Max Factor blood and crawling around an Arab graveyard at five o’clock in the morning as the sun rose over the pyramids was absolute insanity.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Israel is expanding by turning Gaza into a mass graveyard.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
The Mediterranean Sea is probably the largest graveyard in the world, full of people who didn’t make it.
—Hazlitt, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveyard. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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