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Recent Examples of catacombs
For a darker experience in the City of Light, venture beneath Paris and explore its hundreds of miles of catacombs.
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Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catacombs
Noun
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An extensive list of notable tombs can be found at the Colma Historical Museum on Hillside Boulevard.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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The tomb dates back to the 9th century BCE.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Offload expiring deals and build up a vault of draft capital to build with in the offseason.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Oct. 2025
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Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This will cut deep with Andrew as his dear mother, the late Queen Elizabeth, is laid to rest in the crypt, St George’s Chapel.—
Janelle Ash , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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In Saunders’s afterlife, various spirits join Willie, Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son who has died from typhoid fever, while his father grieves in the crypt.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Catacombs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catacombs. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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