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Recent Examples of charnelHis 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 Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, has been burned to the ground, a charnel house of mangled corpses.—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for charnel
Cracking open the vaults to centuries-old tomes could be a data bonanza for tech companies battling lawsuits from living novelists, visual artists, and others whose creative works have been scooped up without their consent to train AI chatbots.
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Matt O'Brien,
Christian Science Monitor,
13 June 2025
Judah Clark, Servite, Jr. Pole vault: Garrett Higgins, Trabuco Hills, Sr.
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.
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Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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.
The Indiana Pacers are currently down 3-2 in their series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and an injury to Haliburton could be the nail in the coffin for them.
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Mikai Bruce,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Surely one of these seemingly daily controversies — some profane dig at an American war hero, some resurfaced scandal from his past — would eventually be the nail in the coffin for the Donald Trump campaign.
While some come from the bodies themselves, many other chemical molecules arose from archeological objects like the sarcophaguses and mummification fabric.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
14 Feb. 2025
Given the sarcophagus’ theme and the notable diversity of ancient Caesarea, which was home to Jews and Christians alike, the family was probably pagan.
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Aurora Martínez,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
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