as in cemeteries
a piece of land used for burying the dead
a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town
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Recent Examples of boneyards
Many fire engines are mothballed in city boneyards, and the department has lost nearly 50 more firefighters since the Palisades fire.
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Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boneyards
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On its walls are commemorated more than 72,000 British soldiers still missing from the war cemeteries that dot the landscape of the Somme valley, 72,000 people whose bodies were never identified from the carnage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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Making space to grieve and remember Looking ahead, Frost and Amoui plan to acquire more cemeteries.—
Sophie Caldwell,
CNBC,
26 May 2026
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Tidy Entryways and Mudrooms Mudrooms and entryways can be graveyards of clutter.—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
22 May 2026
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The new observations reveal that under the right conditions, even these hostile stellar graveyards can preserve frozen molecules.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Boneyards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boneyards. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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