as in graveyard
a piece of land used for burying the dead
many of the soldiers who died in the battle are buried in a cemetery nearby
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Recent Examples of cemetery
Davidson was charged with felony theft, cemetery mischief, criminal trespass and disturbing ground for artifacts from a grave.
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Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
Burton said Wormser may have been killed at the cemetery.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Brongniart strove to preserve the natural landscape of the Charonne hillside, and his naturalist design ushered in a wave of rural cemeteries.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
Then, instead of going to an L.A. cemetery to bury him, Athena and her children board a plane with Bobby’s casket and take him back to St. Paul, Minnesota to be buried with his first wife, Marcy, and his two children, Robert Jr. and Brooke.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 May 2025
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Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
Burton said Wormser may have been killed at the cemetery.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Brongniart strove to preserve the natural landscape of the Charonne hillside, and his naturalist design ushered in a wave of rural cemeteries.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
Then, instead of going to an L.A. cemetery to bury him, Athena and her children board a plane with Bobby’s casket and take him back to St. Paul, Minnesota to be buried with his first wife, Marcy, and his two children, Robert Jr. and Brooke.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cemetery
graveyard
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Leading those developments appears to be China, which stunned the world in 2022 by using a robotic grabber to pluck one of its satellites from its orbital slot and drag it into a graveyard orbit.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 May 2025
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In a makeshift graveyard outside the hospital, surrounded by the giraffes that Ellie met in one of the first season’s most emotional scenes, the group discuss their next moves after burying their dead.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
5 May 2025
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“Cemetery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cemetery. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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