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Recent Examples of columbarium
Mai’s columbarium proposal explicitly excluded the ARDA site from consideration.
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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
The crematory, which was built in the fifties, shares a building with the executive offices, a columbarium, and two modern chapels.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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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
The crematory, which was built in the fifties, shares a building with the executive offices, a columbarium, and two modern chapels.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
Noun
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And then there was the glass—the architect loved the flora and fauna of the city and wanted to bring it into the museum, which is not typical of your encyclopedic mausoleums to culture, walled off from the outside world.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
6 Mar. 2026
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One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
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In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel — an old associate of El Mencho — and Arturo Beltrán Leyva.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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These audits compare physical vault holdings with custody records to ensure the metals listed in investor accounts actually exist in storage.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Carlsbad cables would come ashore underground and enter a 100-square-foot vault to be installed on land owned by the state Parks Department just east of Carlsbad Boulevard, north of Palomar Airport Road.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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His only book, Portraits in Life and Death (1976), juxtaposed photos of people in his circle and with images of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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For his role as Erik, the disfigured organist who haunts the catacombs of the Paris opera house, Chaney underwent a dramatic — and painful — transformation that involved pulling back his nostrils with piano wire to create a skeletal look.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The tomb was right there in front of me.—
Talla Mountjoy,
Twin Cities,
11 Mar. 2026
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Discovery tales → Archaeologists uncovered a 1,000-year-old tomb containing gold chest plates, ear ornaments and other elite burial treasures.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Though home to 84,000 veterans, Orange County is the largest county in California without a veterans cemetery.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
12 Mar. 2026
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Neighbors and volunteers have stepped forward to help remove the tires and restore the cemetery to its rightful state.—
Nakell Williams,
CBS News,
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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Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
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Discovery tales → Archaeologists uncovered a 1,000-year-old tomb containing gold chest plates, ear ornaments and other elite burial treasures.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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That’s according to a new report in the Daily Mail, which published a photo of Hackman’s burial location in the Santa Fe Memorial Gardens.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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