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Recent Examples of columbarium
Later, the victims’ ashes were interred in a modest columbarium that the priest had built in a Catholic cemetery.
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Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Mai’s columbarium proposal explicitly excluded the ARDA site from consideration.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
When the base closed, the land passed to the city of Alameda, but one corner was retained by the VA to build a new 158,000-square-foot outpatient clinic and columbarium as a final resting place for Bay Area veterans.
—John Ramos, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The Diocese of Nashville has an on-site columbarium at its Calvary Cemetery in Nashville, and a few more churches in the area are moving forward with.
—Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
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Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Mai’s columbarium proposal explicitly excluded the ARDA site from consideration.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
When the base closed, the land passed to the city of Alameda, but one corner was retained by the VA to build a new 158,000-square-foot outpatient clinic and columbarium as a final resting place for Bay Area veterans.
—John Ramos, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The Diocese of Nashville has an on-site columbarium at its Calvary Cemetery in Nashville, and a few more churches in the area are moving forward with.
—Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
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The otherwise contemporary firm HOK’s interpretation features a row of square columns bookended by two bulky, mausoleum-like volumes — a kind of architectural equivalent to armored power shoulders.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Stroll through the grounds for free and admire the intricate headstones and mausoleums.—
Krista Simmons,
Travel + Leisure,
6 June 2026
Noun
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Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon amid the ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a crypt of collector horror comics, and two loyal English Setters.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
15 June 2026
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Physics Universal Love Language emerges from the crypt almost immediately.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
Noun
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Amenities and experiences Descend one floor below the lobby to enter the Mint Bar, a dark, moody space set in the former bank vault that maintains many of the original features from the early 20th-century building.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 June 2026
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Moldauer and Kameron Nelson will both appear in Sunday’s vault finals.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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The monastery includes a massive network of underground catacombs, which contain the bodies of early Slavic saints, and is one of the most sacred locations in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and a symbol of the country’s cultural and spiritual heritage.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
15 June 2026
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Don't let the name Wind Cave National Park lull you into thinking only of the dark and mysterious catacombs of the cave.—
Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
14 May 2026
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Sergei Diaghilev’s production of Cléopâtre for Les Ballets Russes from 1909 and Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 fueled the beginning of the jeweler’s enchanting creations inspired by the lost civilization.—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
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Before Wednesday's service, Pope Leo lit a candle and prayed at the tomb of Gaudí in the basilica's crypt.—
Christopher Edwards,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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Willerslev and other researchers looked for traces of plague-causing bacteria in remains from four cemeteries near Siberia's Lake Baikal.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
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The region was rich in resources, including waters for fishing, and the cemeteries show that the hunter-gatherers buried their dead nearby for generations — perhaps to claim the region for themselves, Macleod said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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One is a charnel house dominated by Daniel Day-Lewis’s Bill the Butcher, a man with unnerving knife skills.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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This was also the case in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which abandoned the novel’s complex (and, importantly, entertaining) moral quandaries in favor of a clock tower colossus doubling as a steam punk charnel house.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Feb. 2026
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In March 2026, archaeologists published a study of 125 burials from a Stone Age civilization in modern-day Hungary.—
Ky Merkley,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
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Now, more than three months after he was killed at the start of the US-Israeli war, the date of his burial has been announced.—
Kevin Liptak,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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