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Recent Examples of coffin
Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
Hundreds of people, many in tears, filled the town square as their three white coffins were brought in.
—Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 28 May 2025
The Indiana Pacers are currently down 3-2 in their series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and an injury to Haliburton could be the nail in the coffin for them.
—Mikai Bruce, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Surely one of these seemingly daily controversies — some profane dig at an American war hero, some resurfaced scandal from his past — would eventually be the nail in the coffin for the Donald Trump campaign.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
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Verb
Shahn puts the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti at the foot of the painting, in their coffins, and above them the three members of the Lowell Committee, who affirmed the guilty verdict.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
Hundreds of people, many in tears, filled the town square as their three white coffins were brought in.
—Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 28 May 2025
The Indiana Pacers are currently down 3-2 in their series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and an injury to Haliburton could be the nail in the coffin for them.
—Mikai Bruce, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Surely one of these seemingly daily controversies — some profane dig at an American war hero, some resurfaced scandal from his past — would eventually be the nail in the coffin for the Donald Trump campaign.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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When customers elect cremation, that revenue can be significantly lower: The median cost of a direct cremation, which doesn’t include a viewing or service, is $2,750, about a third of that of a traditional package with a casket, viewing, ceremony and burial, which is $8,300.—
Susan Shain,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Taylor’s casket, covered with an American flag, was taken through reverent procession in Bell County on May 13 from Temple to the funeral home in Copperas Cove, KXXV reported.—
Kate Linderman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Visitors walk among ancient walls and tombs, uncovering stories that span from Roman London to World War II.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Known both as a common crop mold and a lurking danger in ancient tombs, its spores have been linked to mysterious deaths — from King Tutankhamun’s 1920s excavation to a 1970s Polish royal tomb incident that apparently killed several archaeologists.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
24 June 2025
Verb
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Meanwhile, every attempt to create ethical walls and accountability at PURA have been quietly buried by those who benefit from the dysfunction.—
Timothy M. Herbst,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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Where power lines are buried, flooding can also cause issues.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
Verb
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At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to 8 million residents — millions of pounds of waste are stranded, entombed in concrete, waiting for the federal government to figure out what the bloody heck to do with it.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
18 June 2025
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Footage of the pope's funeral Pope Francis' coffin has been entombed.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Like yesterday, and the days before, she is interred in the ground up to her waist, the afterthought of some unnamed apocalypse.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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The remains were interred in 1948 at the Normandy American Cemetery.—
Brett Barrouquere,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
Verb
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Police vans and hearses were among the only available vehicles large enough to transport someone lying down.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 May 2025
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Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.—
John von Sothen,
airmail.news,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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