as in memorial
a special structure or statue that is built to remind people of a dead person who is buried somewhere else
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Recent Examples of cenotaph
Her bed has become her grave, a tomb beneath the ceiling of her room,
the ceiling a cenotaph.
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Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town's cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans and pots at officers.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 5 Aug. 2024
Middlesbrough also saw around 300 people gathering at the town’s cenotaph.
—Armani Syed/london, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town’s cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans, and pots at officers.
—Pan Pylas, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2024
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Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town's cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans and pots at officers.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 5 Aug. 2024
Middlesbrough also saw around 300 people gathering at the town’s cenotaph.
—Armani Syed/london, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town’s cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans, and pots at officers.
—Pan Pylas, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cenotaph
Noun
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The memorial will also be livestreamed on Kirk's Rumble account.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Dallas University of Texas at Dallas UTD’s chapter of Turning Point USA is also organizing a memorial in honor of Kirk’s memory.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Sep. 2025
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The drama, also starring Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, was a monument to dramatic realism, so serious in its attempt to capture the truth that the production took bags of trash from the real-life Post offices and used the papers on the set.—
Stephen Galloway,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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Amphibious cars are a monument to indecision, never perfected, always a compromise of some sort but often in their weird way sublime, like the Sea Lion Amphibious Prototype heading for auction this weekend.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Cenotaph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cenotaph. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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