resting place
noun
1
: a place where people can stop and rest
We found a good resting place by the side of the trail.
2
: a place where someone is buried
her final/last resting place
3
: a place where something has been put
The monument was moved to a new resting place.
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The striking bronze sculpture, designed by architect, Kenneth Treister, is at the center of the memorial, which opened in 1990 to be a formal place of remembrance for those with no resting place.
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Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
Alice, who often visited Charlotte's resting place, also knew about Jack and Rachel's secret trysts near the graveyard.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
Townspeople believed that one of the Brown women was leaving their final resting place to kill members of their family, and exhumed their bodies in turn.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Ship of Dreams details both the catastrophe and its legacy, beginning at a Belfast dry dock and ending with the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster, which happened en route to the Titanic’s seafloor resting place.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
Alice, who often visited Charlotte's resting place, also knew about Jack and Rachel's secret trysts near the graveyard.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
Townspeople believed that one of the Brown women was leaving their final resting place to kill members of their family, and exhumed their bodies in turn.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Ship of Dreams details both the catastrophe and its legacy, beginning at a Belfast dry dock and ending with the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster, which happened en route to the Titanic’s seafloor resting place.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Resting place.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resting%20place. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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