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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.
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Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Its fronds are strewn across churchyards worldwide during Palm Sunday processions to symbolize Christ’s last entry into Jerusalem, and palm leaves cover the Sukkot booths during the annual Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles as called for in Leviticus.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Greek Festival Food, music and dance fill the churchyard at Holy Trinity Cathedral during one of the largest cultural festivals of the year in downtown Salt Lake City.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
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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Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Its fronds are strewn across churchyards worldwide during Palm Sunday processions to symbolize Christ’s last entry into Jerusalem, and palm leaves cover the Sukkot booths during the annual Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles as called for in Leviticus.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Greek Festival Food, music and dance fill the churchyard at Holy Trinity Cathedral during one of the largest cultural festivals of the year in downtown Salt Lake City.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
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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Beneath a tree southwest of the cemetery’s historic bell tower, signs guide visitors to the art installation.—
Hunter Boyce,
AJC.com,
4 Mar. 2026
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Yesterday, my wife and I went out to the cemetery to lay some flowers for her brother and father, who passed away many years ago.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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This led investigators to determine that Michael’s body was once buried in the backyard, but moved before the excavation.—
Alex Brizee
March 5,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Mar. 2026
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Santos-Aviles, 35, died after setting herself on fire in the backyard of her home in Uvalde, Texas.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 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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The decorative candle lanterns are perfect for patios, balconies, gardens, and stairways, adding a warm glow wherever they’re placed.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Mar. 2026
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In addition, the attached Barrington Farm offered the President Anson Jones home where living-history participants worked the vegetable garden and baked bread in a detached kitchen, among other tasks.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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Earlier, eight people in black, presumably Oseguera's family members, rode in two cars that followed the white hearse with his remains to the graveyard.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Just like Tarzan’s graceful swing from vine to vine, the elephant graveyard was just a bit of movie script invention.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
2 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 arena where the regional is being played is roughly 10 minutes from campus.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Mar. 2026
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Karzoun was punched once in the head near a shopping area on North Eagleville Road in the early morning hours on April 23, 2010, after a party reportedly attended by about 15,000 people at the Carriage House apartment complex near the Storrs campus was broken up.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Churchyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchyard. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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