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Cleanse your altar with copal incense and declutter the area.
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Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 27 Oct. 2025
This union will be especially fragile, given that the two parties at the altar would like to kill each other (a condition that I am told usually takes decades of Anglican matrimony).
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2025
Of course, a highlight of the free event is the display of colorful altars at the Mexican Heritage Plaza and at surrounding businesses on Alum Rock Avenue stretching west toward Highway 101.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Common to Day of the Dead celebrations are ofrendas or altars honoring those who have died and are being remembered, and marigolds are central to the decorations.
—Heather McRea, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 27 Oct. 2025
This union will be especially fragile, given that the two parties at the altar would like to kill each other (a condition that I am told usually takes decades of Anglican matrimony).
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2025
Of course, a highlight of the free event is the display of colorful altars at the Mexican Heritage Plaza and at surrounding businesses on Alum Rock Avenue stretching west toward Highway 101.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Common to Day of the Dead celebrations are ofrendas or altars honoring those who have died and are being remembered, and marigolds are central to the decorations.
—Heather McRea, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for altar
pulpit
Noun
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Pastor Turner’s leadership extends beyond the pulpit.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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His senior Great Dane, Monroe, sprawls out on the floor between the music and the old pulpit.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Altar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altar. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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