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Recent Examples of columbarium
The crematory, which was built in the fifties, shares a building with the executive offices, a columbarium, and two modern chapels.
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Remains end up either in a niche purchased in the columbarium, or sprinkled on the cemetery's Memorial Green set aside for that purpose.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
But on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred.
—Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Regent Barbara Weitz suggested building a columbarium under the football field where fans could have their ashes inurned as part of Memorial Stadium’s next renovation.
—Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Remains end up either in a niche purchased in the columbarium, or sprinkled on the cemetery's Memorial Green set aside for that purpose.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
But on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred.
—Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Regent Barbara Weitz suggested building a columbarium under the football field where fans could have their ashes inurned as part of Memorial Stadium’s next renovation.
—Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
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For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said.—
Gaya Gupta,
Washington Post,
10 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, at Mount Moriah, the graves Gerlach allegedly prayed on are old, ornate mausoleums and large crypt-like vaults, many from the 1800s.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Meanwhile, at Mount Moriah, the graves Gerlach allegedly prayed on are old, ornate mausoleums and large crypt-like vaults, many from the 1800s.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Following another private ceremony for Brown’s family, his body was moved to his daughter Deanna’s Beech Island home, where it was later stored in an above-ground crypt.—
Makena Gera,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
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Most of them go deep into the memory vault of childhood, recalling fishing trips and family gatherings.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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After five years, the vault of positive affirmations that had introduced Fine Line reverted to a blank screen.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 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
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Between 2022 and 2024, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated a series of ancient tombs in the Jiali Village of Zi’an.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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On the moors, cliffs, and hills there are wind farms; oil terminals; small farms, some of which have been there for many centuries; ruined medieval churches and hermitages; and prehistoric settlements, tombs, and monuments.—
Sarah Moss,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Arrest papers show a cemetery board member first called the police.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Adelaida returns from the cemetery to discover her apartment has been taken over by a woman aligned with the regime.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 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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For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
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Over the weekend, CNN and other media posted a video of mourners carrying the body of a protester into the Paradise of Zahra for burial.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2026
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The burial will be at Center Cemetery, D2 Dividend Road in Rocky Hill, immediately following the funeral mass.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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