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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Mestemaker’s career day featured 608 yards through the air, breaking the North Texas program record, including dealing to three different receivers with 100-yard days, led by Wyatt Young’s 190 yards and a 70-yard touchdown to put the nail in Charlotte’s coffin.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2025
Two coffins carrying the remains of the deceased hostages crossed the border into Israel earlier on Tuesday and were taken to the National Institute for Forensic Medicine for identification and to investigate the causes of death.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Hamas delivered four coffins to Israel late Tuesday, each thought to contain the remains of Israeli captives held in Gaza.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The sound of hammering came from outside in the driveway, where some men were building a coffin.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Mestemaker’s career day featured 608 yards through the air, breaking the North Texas program record, including dealing to three different receivers with 100-yard days, led by Wyatt Young’s 190 yards and a 70-yard touchdown to put the nail in Charlotte’s coffin.
—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2025
Two coffins carrying the remains of the deceased hostages crossed the border into Israel earlier on Tuesday and were taken to the National Institute for Forensic Medicine for identification and to investigate the causes of death.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Hamas delivered four coffins to Israel late Tuesday, each thought to contain the remains of Israeli captives held in Gaza.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Rosebud Lee — like Emmett Till’s mother, months later — insisted her husband’s casket be open at his funeral.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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At the church, a contingent of the Patriot Guard, who had ridden alongside, welcomed him, and an Honor Guard from the Army’s National 40th Division carried in his casket for a small, private ceremony that included military honors.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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There is no dignity, and no justice, in a system that buries an elderly woman alive in silence.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London have found that humans can detect objects buried in sand without directly touching them.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Although the city demolished the long-vacant behemoth from its modest skyline about nine months ago, its remains lie entombed where the building once stood, and temporarily block the beginning of a new chapter of Marysville history.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Acutis was entombed in Assisi, where millions flocked to see him through glass, dressed in jeans, Nike sneakers and a sweatshirt.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Odd Fellows Cemetery, where Sammy is interred, is the last such cemetery in Sacramento.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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She was later interred at Fairview Cemetery.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Each day brings more permanent residents, arriving in black hearses trailing solemn convoys of hazard-flashing cars to a place still served by generations of locals who cut granite memorials or pour sympathetic whiskeys.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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There was Ozzy’s hearse up front and the family in about five black SUVs following us.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
30 July 2025
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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