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Recent Examples of coffin
Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Large trucks carried the on-display coffins through the heart of Tehran as crowds dressed in black and waved flags.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
For many businesses, this can be the final nail in the coffin.
—William Jones, USA Today, 30 June 2025
However, this is another nail in the coffin for a creative agency or production company that was providing those services.
—Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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Verb
The coffin will be carried from the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta to St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday so mourners can pay their respects.
—Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Large trucks carried the on-display coffins through the heart of Tehran as crowds dressed in black and waved flags.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
For many businesses, this can be the final nail in the coffin.
—William Jones, USA Today, 30 June 2025
However, this is another nail in the coffin for a creative agency or production company that was providing those services.
—Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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It was followed by a video of casket being lowered into the ground.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
14 July 2025
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That means planning practices for the flag and casket teams for the July 11 funeral and standing guard by Corder's body.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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This is the third tomb found at Caracol that dates back to around A.D. 350.—
Kerry Breen
July 10,
CBS News,
10 July 2025
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Discovered in 1902, his bones were sealed inside a ceramic vessel placed in a rock-cut tomb in Nuwayrat, an archaeological site located about 170 miles south of Cairo.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
Verb
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Where power lines are buried, flooding can also cause issues.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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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
Verb
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The ancient Romans built a vast network of aqueducts and canals to harness this semiaquatic environment, now entombed beneath modern Rome.—
Krista Langlois,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
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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
Verb
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Francis is the first pope in over a century not to be interred at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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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
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 18 Jul. 2025.
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