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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 ceremony, coordinated by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3173 and the American Legion Post 72, will be held in front of the community mausoleum.—
Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
20 May 2026
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This month, the hospital granted rare access to reporters from the Associated Press, allowing them into rooms that lie on either side of the centerpiece of Les Invalides, a soaring mausoleum that holds Napoleon’s sarcophagus.—
Sylvie Corbet,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
Noun
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For a macabre detour from all the warm Mediterranean charm, go down to the underground tomb of Chiesa di San Nicolò, where mummified priests line the crypt walls.—
Anne Olivia Bauso,
Travel + Leisure,
21 May 2026
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Lying in this crypt is Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman, a tragic humbug, his delusions contradicted by the ruins around him.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Also like Hyperliquid, Variational’s trading app Omni offers a vault of assets that act as a counterparty to user trades, called Omni Liquidity Provider, or OLP.—
Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
20 May 2026
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Ella Purnell returns to the lead drama actress race for her work as Lucy MacLean, the optimistic vault dweller navigating the brutal wasteland.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
19 May 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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The veneration of the catacomb saints during the late 17th and 18th centuries came at a time when vast stretches of Europe, including Bavaria, were still reeling from the Thirty Years’ War.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
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There, surrounding his tomb, visitors will find walls covered in some of Goya’s finest frescoes, restored to their vivid, original pigment tones, along with the church interior and building structure itself, reports the Times of London.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
14 May 2026
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Hue, Vietnam Ornate palaces, pavilions, statues and royal tombs are waiting to be explored in Hue.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
13 May 2026
Noun
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Outside the cemetery, father and son stood in a line with their male relatives to receive condolences.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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The hotel is within the Old Cambridge Historic District, next to a cemetery where soldiers who fought at Bunker Hill during the American Revolution are buried.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 May 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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Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what’s now New South Wales, Australia.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
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The first Kampala patient traveled to Uganda via public transportation, died in a hospital and his body was then transported back across the border to DRC for burial.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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