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Recent Examples of coffin
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
Door Not Closed Hoelz is not totally convinced that this is a nail in the coffin for the gel model.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026
Mummy coffins lie destroyed on the ground, top, and broken antique vitrines, below, at the Sudan National Museum in April.
—Eissa Dafallah, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
The nail in the coffin was Friday’s hotter-than-expected producer price index for February, as persistent inflation was added to the laundry list of unknowns.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Seeing Trump saluting the coffins of six soldiers killed, wearing his baseball cap — where is his helmet?
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
Door Not Closed Hoelz is not totally convinced that this is a nail in the coffin for the gel model.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026
Mummy coffins lie destroyed on the ground, top, and broken antique vitrines, below, at the Sudan National Museum in April.
—Eissa Dafallah, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
The nail in the coffin was Friday’s hotter-than-expected producer price index for February, as persistent inflation was added to the laundry list of unknowns.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Earlier this month, Oseguera was buried in a golden casket with enormous flower wreaths and a large military presence.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2026
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Denise holding a White, blond doll; Lisa and her sister Kimberly growing up; Denise in a casket.—
John Archibald,
Southern Living,
16 Mar. 2026
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In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.—
Peter Hessler,
The New Yorker,
26 June 2023
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To be buried with a drum, perhaps, gave one an advantage in the afterlife.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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The same process happened with the government’s attempt to dismantle the Palestinian Authority in order to kill and bury the hope for Palestinian self-determination.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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While Soviet authorities entombed that plant in concrete, Tokyo decided on a very different approach — the Fukushima Dai-ichi facility would be entirely dismantled.—
Yusuke Maekawa,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
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Even followers of British royalty can make a heritage visit to the final resting place of Princess Alice of Battenberg, grandmother of King Charles, who is entombed on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Navy personnel worked until April 1942 to recover remains of the crew, which were interred in the Halawa and Nu'uanu Cemeteries in Hawaii.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Later, the victims’ ashes were interred in a modest columbarium that the priest had built in a Catholic cemetery.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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This can also include autos such as ambulances, work trucks, hearses, etc.—
Block Advisors Contributor,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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The cars, shown Nov. 8 and 9, appeared in classes such as classics, customs, dragsters, race cars, rat rods, street rods, trucks, uniques and even hearses.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
13 Nov. 2025
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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