as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
was laid in rest in God's acre, with a comforting view of the river he loved so much
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The video showed Disneyland visitors squeezing past the lapbars on the closed ride vehicles and walking around the Haunted Mansion cemetery set amid moving animatronic figures and props.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026 -
Excavations at the site are ongoing, and archaeologists hope future work will provide a clearer picture of the people buried there and the role the cemetery played in the final centuries of Heliopolis.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
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Putin ‘trying to erase Ukraine into a graveyard’ Charred cars were buried under rubble and people trudged through a debris-laden landscape in Kyiv on Tuesday.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
2 June 2026
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Betting against this trade, at least for now, may well be your ticket to the graveyard.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
2 June 2026
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“God's acre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/God%27s%20acre. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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