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Recent Examples of churchyard
An unusual structural failure recently caused a dramatic, sinkhole-like collapse in an historic English churchyard — revealing a 300-year-old family vault.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Nov. 2025
Installing pipework through the churchyard for the heat pumps, which are in a fenced enclosure nearby, was a painstaking process.
—Chris Baraniuk, Wired News, 13 Nov. 2025
Early rural cemeteries In the early 1800s, cemeteries in the United States started separating from churchyards and common grounds of large cities, such as Boston Common.
—Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
As befits the setting of an old stone church with a shadowy churchyard, theological themes surface concerning everything from faith to resurrection to desecration to the nature of miracles.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Nov. 2025
Installing pipework through the churchyard for the heat pumps, which are in a fenced enclosure nearby, was a painstaking process.
—Chris Baraniuk, Wired News, 13 Nov. 2025
Early rural cemeteries In the early 1800s, cemeteries in the United States started separating from churchyards and common grounds of large cities, such as Boston Common.
—Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
As befits the setting of an old stone church with a shadowy churchyard, theological themes surface concerning everything from faith to resurrection to desecration to the nature of miracles.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchyard
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Additionally through Wondaland Arts Society, Monáe produces Wondaween, a month-long, city-wide Halloween festival to Los Angeles, which spans cemeteries, theaters, secret locations, the Hollywood Bowl and Santa Monica Pier.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
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For the Day 2 stretch between the cemetery and Garden District, the streetcar is both practical and scenic.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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Gunfire in a backyard after an altercation killed a woman and injured a man early Thursday on Kansas City’s East Side, police said.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
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Once bare, our backyard branches are now cloudlike, full of pink, white, and purple flowers.—
Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2026
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His only book, Portraits in Life and Death (1976), juxtaposed photos of people in his circle and with images of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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For a darker experience in the City of Light, venture beneath Paris and explore its hundreds of miles of catacombs.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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Cámara cranks one burner to 20,000 BTU to quickly boil fresh pasta and lowers the next to a gentler 300 BTU to simmer sauces whipped up with leftover garden vegetables.—
Kate Kassin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
9 Apr. 2026
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How to Get Around With lush gardens, scenic ocean paths, and historic boulevards, Yokohama is the perfect place to stretch your legs and explore on foot.—
Kim Kay,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2026
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An unceremonious dumping ground for the sort of horror movies most people can live without, Q1 has long functioned as a graveyard for the genre.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
1 Apr. 2026
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Maritime archaeologists have discovered a massive 328-foot ship graveyard off the coast of the 2,000-year-old ancient Greek port city of Ptolemais, Libya.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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These are often called dooryard violets and the Latin name is viola sororia.—
Sheryl De Vore,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
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But on a clear day after rain, the dooryards and the narrow streets are fragrant with summer lilacs; the overgrown grass by the river, where people of all backgrounds pause to rest, blows on the approach to a high, arcing bridge; and startling moments of bright, simple beauty emerge.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
17 Oct. 2024
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The Salvation Army owns and operates the 1,200-acre campus, which has more than 80,000 square feet of soundstages and outdoor sets for the show.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
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She was instantly swept up in campus life, joining the Cho Chin sorority and serving as the secretary of the student council.—
Patrick Salland,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Churchyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchyard. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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