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Recent Examples of columbarium
Remains end up either in a niche purchased in the columbarium, or sprinkled on the cemetery's Memorial Green set aside for that purpose.
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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
In 2019, the group bought a columbarium with 96 niches to inter ashes for other kinds of service dogs.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2024
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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
In 2019, the group bought a columbarium with 96 niches to inter ashes for other kinds of service dogs.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
Noun
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City and county governments set local rules covering burials, inurnments, entombments and the upkeep of cemeteries, mausoleums and columbariums, according to state law.—
Angela Rodriguez,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Children play among headstones, and locals see ornate mausoleums daily on their way to run errands; the graveyards woven into public life as parks and libraries are in other cities.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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However, both sets of remains could share the same plot, niche, crypt or vault.—
Angela Rodriguez,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Bone church The remains of more than 4,000 Capuchin friars adorn the walls and ceiling of the crypt under the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Witnessing Malinin fall is akin to seeing Simone Biles miss a vault or Victor Wembanyama miss a dunk.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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To accessorize her attire, Queen Mary added historic jewelry pieces from Denmark’s royal vault.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
2 Jan. 2026
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For a darker experience in the City of Light, venture beneath Paris and explore its hundreds of miles of catacombs.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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Choose Sauternes for golden dessert wines, Arcachon Bay for oysters, and Saint-Émilion’s limestone catacombs.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The Suleymaniye Mosque is considered Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan's most splendid Istanbul mosque, and he himself is buried in a tomb nearby.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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But now, winners of the lottery will be granted the opportunity to buy and restore one of 30 tombs in three different cemeteries, with city hall agreeing to lease the corresponding burial plot to those who meet certain standards.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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The cemetery is also the final resting place of Bardot's parents and her first husband, filmmaker Roger Vadim, who helmed her breakout film And God Created Woman.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Jan. 2026
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Property taxes pay for more than two dozen types of local improvement and service districts that cover cemeteries, ambulances, pest control, flood prevention, downtown development, fire protection and more.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
6 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 time, Thompson and her colleagues have unearthed more burials, ancient human DNA and tiny human bone fragments.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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But for us, the living, this burial meant something else.—
Jeffrey Bennett,
Time,
5 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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