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Recent Examples of churchyard
In Ham, after the trespass, the group stopped in a churchyard for lunch, where more thermoses of tea emerged from backpacks.
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Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
Last summer, O’Farrell presided over a ceremony for the planting of a pair of trees in the churchyard — one commemorating Hamnet, the other Judith.
—Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
His company has now taken on the task of mapping every churchyard and municipal burial ground in England—a total of more than 18,000—to create a Google Street View of graveyards in which descendants, genealogists, and conservationists can click on a map and see who was buried there and when.
—WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
At one point, the thieves threatened to burn the painting unless their demands were met, but unlike The Concert, The Guitar Player was safely recovered with the help of an anonymous tip: a detective found the canvas, wrapped in newspaper, propped up against an old headstone in a London churchyard.
—Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
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Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
Last summer, O’Farrell presided over a ceremony for the planting of a pair of trees in the churchyard — one commemorating Hamnet, the other Judith.
—Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
His company has now taken on the task of mapping every churchyard and municipal burial ground in England—a total of more than 18,000—to create a Google Street View of graveyards in which descendants, genealogists, and conservationists can click on a map and see who was buried there and when.
—WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
At one point, the thieves threatened to burn the painting unless their demands were met, but unlike The Concert, The Guitar Player was safely recovered with the help of an anonymous tip: a detective found the canvas, wrapped in newspaper, propped up against an old headstone in a London churchyard.
—Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchyard
Noun
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Flag placement event at national cemetery Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery hosts a flag placement event at 8 a.m. May 24 at the cemetery, 1700 Cabrillo Memorial Drive, and volunteers are needed to place flags on gravesites.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Davidson was charged with felony theft, cemetery mischief, criminal trespass and disturbing ground for artifacts from a grave.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
15 May 2025
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My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth.—
Jarred Roberts,
The Conversation,
20 May 2025
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Mount Mitchell, the tallest among them — the tallest in the eastern U.S. — is their backyard.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
ProPublica,
19 May 2025
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The resort team has planted only native flora on the premises and is working on a larger replanting effort, creating a wild garden near Asaya Spa.—
Maya Kachroo-Levine,
Travel + Leisure,
22 May 2025
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The makeover, budgeted for $42 million including $35 million for construction, also includes an amphitheater, a butterfly garden, six tennis courts, a children’s playground, a dog park, a boardwalk, covered pavilions, outdoor workout equipment, and an amphitheater.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2025
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Leading those developments appears to be China, which stunned the world in 2022 by using a robotic grabber to pluck one of its satellites from its orbital slot and drag it into a graveyard orbit.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 May 2025
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In a makeshift graveyard outside the hospital, surrounded by the giraffes that Ellie met in one of the first season’s most emotional scenes, the group discuss their next moves after burying their dead.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
5 May 2025
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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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Thousands of campuses from at least a dozen states have rejected President Donald Trump's claim that diversity, equity and inclusion programming violated federal civil rights law, and his directive to schools to eliminate them.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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The Bee looked specifically at the six UC campuses with the lowest admission rates — the toughest schools to get into.—
Phillip Reese,
Sacbee.com,
24 May 2025
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“Churchyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchyard. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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