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Recent Examples of urn
Her father died about a year before her, and her mother plans to place their urns next to each other on the mantle in her home.
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Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
One Navy veteran will also receive a traditional burial at sea, and additional urns will be reunited with family in Rhode Island, New York, and Maine.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
There were eight different niches in the tomb, six of them occupied by urns containing the remains of three men and three women.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
Weitz said the suggestion could help close the school’s $58 million budget shortfall, with the price for niches (where cremation urns are stored) varying by location … with spots at the 50-yard line and end zone sold at a premium.
—Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
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Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
One Navy veteran will also receive a traditional burial at sea, and additional urns will be reunited with family in Rhode Island, New York, and Maine.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
There were eight different niches in the tomb, six of them occupied by urns containing the remains of three men and three women.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
Weitz said the suggestion could help close the school’s $58 million budget shortfall, with the price for niches (where cremation urns are stored) varying by location … with spots at the 50-yard line and end zone sold at a premium.
—Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
Noun
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In the end, this deception will just be another nail in the coffin of legacy media.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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At one funeral in Ankara, the coffins of a family of five were lined up at the central Ahmet Hamdi Akseki mosque.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Easton had his wife’s body placed in an open casket.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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The show struggles a bit in places to credibly evoke the relative innocence (or quiet oppression) of the 1970s and there are some moments of cluttered staging that just don’t work; as one example, a big gag involving kids hiding in a coffin kinda needs a casket to work.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.—
Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The Senate may well have all been murdered on Lucilla’s weird, theater-y funeral bier.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
22 Nov. 2024
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Among the changes, the new rites eliminate the practice of placing the pope on an elevated bier in St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
20 Nov. 2024
Noun
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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
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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