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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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What made the story even more haunting was the realization that the gravestone wasn’t even Jody’s.
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 18 May 2025
Outside, the museum’s free archeological park holds ancient stone relics, from tumbled columns to ornate gravestones.
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Alex is bestowed with the ultimate posthumous Dutton honor in the finale, a gravestone in the famed ranch cemetery for top-tier clan only.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
Its most familiar use was as the color of one of the fringes of our four-cornered garments...Blue is also commonly found painted on the gravestones of righteous people in the mystical city of Tzefat.
—Sophie Liza Cannon, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 18 May 2025
Outside, the museum’s free archeological park holds ancient stone relics, from tumbled columns to ornate gravestones.
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Alex is bestowed with the ultimate posthumous Dutton honor in the finale, a gravestone in the famed ranch cemetery for top-tier clan only.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
Its most familiar use was as the color of one of the fringes of our four-cornered garments...Blue is also commonly found painted on the gravestones of righteous people in the mystical city of Tzefat.
—Sophie Liza Cannon, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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