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Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 1 June 2025
Rising from the coffin of a hilarious but obscure mockumentary feature about four sort-of loser vampire housemates in suburban New Zealand, the FX sitcom shifted the action to Staten Island and cast its undead ensemble as blithely murderous, petty, pansexual and often dim-witted.
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
But the final nail in the coffin of the film’s watchability is how much effort the octogenarian star actually puts into the role.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 4 June 2025
New York scored six times in the eighth, with Brandon Nimmo’s two-run homer feeling like a nail in the coffin.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 May 2025
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Noun
The actress served to the camera as Gaga — fittingly clad as a lady in red — danced atop the table, before returning to her coffin — and taking Thing with her.
—Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 1 June 2025
Rising from the coffin of a hilarious but obscure mockumentary feature about four sort-of loser vampire housemates in suburban New Zealand, the FX sitcom shifted the action to Staten Island and cast its undead ensemble as blithely murderous, petty, pansexual and often dim-witted.
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
But the final nail in the coffin of the film’s watchability is how much effort the octogenarian star actually puts into the role.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 4 June 2025
New York scored six times in the eighth, with Brandon Nimmo’s two-run homer feeling like a nail in the coffin.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Experts said a casket filled with decorative objects discovered at the site likely belonged to a prominent woman, and noted very few like it have ever been found.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
19 June 2025
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On Wednesday, Tucker and her three sisters walked solemnly across the Woodland cemetery grounds with their brother in a casket covered with an American flag.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
19 June 2025
Noun
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A lot of the postures in Kemetic yoga are based on postures from temples or tombs.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2025
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Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
Verb
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The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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So rather than bury them behind clunky steps and legalese, bring them forward with clarity and care.—
Sal Rehmetullah,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
Verb
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At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to 8 million residents — millions of pounds of waste are stranded, entombed in concrete, waiting for the federal government to figure out what the bloody heck to do with it.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
18 June 2025
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Footage of the pope's funeral Pope Francis' coffin has been entombed.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Apr. 2025
Verb
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But although tens of thousands of visitors were coming for respite, too few were buying: only a hundred and seventy-five people were interred there by 1843.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Secretaries of State, including Colin Powell, John Dulles, Alexander Haig and George Marshall are interred at Arlington.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
Verb
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Police vans and hearses were among the only available vehicles large enough to transport someone lying down.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 May 2025
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Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.—
John von Sothen,
airmail.news,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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