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Recent Examples of charnel
Flaherty’s descriptions of both the highs (rubies) and lows (charnel houses) of nonstop writing struck me as alien.
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Molly Young, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
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Molly Young, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
Noun
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The sheikh’s tomb blocks my vision.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Mar. 2026
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But from the tomb of Philip’s father, Charles V, comes a booming ghostly voice, and Carlo is led away into darkness.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
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In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel — an old associate of El Mencho — and Arturo Beltrán Leyva.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The emails ask the user to take some kind of action, such as disconnecting or locking their vault.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
6 Mar. 2026
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Secure the precious metal properly Private vault facilities for gold storage offer enhanced features such as advanced security measures and comprehensive insurance coverage specifically designed for precious metals.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.—
Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.—
Joe Yudin,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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Door Not Closed Hoelz is not totally convinced that this is a nail in the coffin for the gel model.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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Hundreds of people stepped forward as the coffins were carried toward the cemetery for burial.—
Fadwa Hodali,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There, layers of light green cloth cover a stone sarcophagus.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Mar. 2026
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After nearly 20 years, the third installment in The Mummy franchise is going back in the sarcophagus.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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