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Recent Examples of charnel
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
Noun
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The Unknown Soldier War Memorial contains a flame and the tomb of a soldier killed in World War I under an arch of the Arc de Triomphe.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Around the tomb entrance, excavations found pickaxes, obsidian fragments and a spindle.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
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He is buried in a crypt at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Justice, not far from his parents and two sisters.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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The veterans cemetery’s first phase of development, which would not include crypts to bury caskets, was projected in 2023 to cost $123 million to develop.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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But all the violence and gore scared off most distributors, so the film—starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) in the title role—has been languishing in the vault for much of the last two years.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 2025
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Poets’ vault back into the top 10 comes after Swift’s Aug. 12 announcement of her forthcoming new studio album, The Life of a Showgirl (due Oct. 3).—
Keith Caulfield,
Billboard,
24 Aug. 2025
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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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There are so many nails in Andrew’s historic coffin.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Aroldis Chapman put the final nail in his former team’s coffin – and picked up his 23rd save – with a 1-2-3 ninth against Judge, Bellinger, and Stanton. Facts and figures The Red Sox are 46-19 when scoring first, 28-34 on the road, and 21-15 against the American League East.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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Archaeologists were unsure of what the entire scene depicted until the sarcophagus was handed over to the IAA's conservation team — who assembled the fragments.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2025
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That could produce a similar effect to the sarcophagus built around Chernobyl after the disaster in 1986, Bretton-Gordon said.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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