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as in coffins
a boxlike container for holding a dead body
bought a beautiful casket when her grandmother died
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as in bins
a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things
a small casket of jewels
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Recent Examples of caskets
Average caskets run between $2,000 and $5,000 in the United States, but some made of mahogany, bronze or copper can cost upward of $10,000, according to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Consumer Advice department.
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Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
The group staged a mock funeral procession in January 2021, with doctors carrying caskets on their shoulders, representing 384 people who had died in the nation’s smallest state of an overdose the previous year.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
The group staged a mock funeral procession in January 2021, with doctors carrying caskets on their shoulders, representing 384 people who had died in the nation’s smallest state of an overdose the previous year.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caskets
Noun
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The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Too often, the radioactive material landed in crematoriums and coffins.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, the brothers, wearing matching cherry-red-and-lime-green eyeglasses, browsed the pick-and-mix bins at Kändi, a Swedish-style sweets shop in Los Angeles.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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One of the biggest challenges in recycling plastic is that there are several kinds of plastic that end up in our bins – and those variations in composition necessitate sorting out waste before processing it.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Roskilde’s stately cathedral stands solemn and proud—its royal tombs steeped in centuries of candlelit reverence—while chalk-white Møns Klint plunges into the deep Baltic blue, where fossil hunters comb the shore and peregrine falcons wheel overhead.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Cardboard boxes will deteriorate due to heat and water, and animals and bugs will snack on them or possibly use them for nesting materials in the meantime.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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The new class of investors isn’t likely to be satisfied with great seats and nice spreads in the sky boxes.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Some sat sunken in the leather roller chairs in front of their lockers.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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These days, Ski-In is fully modern, offering online bookings, heated lockers, and top-tier gear.—
Erica Firpo,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The tips of their trunks have a pair of buds resembling deer hooves.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Just be sure to keep mulch lines a few inches away from tree trunks, as mulch placed directly against a tree’s bark increases the risk of pest and rot issues.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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All chests in Encore down to two, all chests in Starcrossed down to one and Whisper’s mid-activity chest removed entirely.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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More than a dozen graves have been discovered, with the deceased buried in a fetal position with their arms crossed on their chests, experts said in the release.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Caskets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caskets. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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