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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Stoughton man Camryn Guillaume was regularly dealing narcotics in a Randolph cemetery, police said.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025 -
In Florida, the Heritage Monitoring Scouts visit archaeological sites, including cemeteries, forts and mills, to record any impacts after extreme weather events.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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But even without European football, and after a decade in which Old Trafford has at times resembled a graveyard for promising careers, the lure of Manchester United — in terms of glamour, prestige and finance — remains powerful.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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“God's acre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/God%27s%20acre. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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