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Recent Examples of columbarium
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
Noun
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But don’t mistake Savannah for a mausoleum.—
Adam Kuehl,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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After her death, the emperor commissioned the white-marble Taj Mahal mausoleum in Agra, India as a tribute to her.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Queen Camilla attended a short reception following the service in the crypt to meet Guild members and students supported by a Guild bursary.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Roughly 400 are interred in crypts, about 300 in niches, and approximately 15,000 in traditional burial plots.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The first floor unfolds into expansive formal rooms, former dining and sitting areas, a kitchen awaiting reconstruction, a library, sunroom, tearoom, den, vaults and multiple fireplaces.—
Brendel Clark,
Freep.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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Think of aerials as the snow equivalent of the vault in gymnastics.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
20 Feb. 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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Many churches hold sunrise services, which symbolize the discovery of the empty tomb early in the morning.—
Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Feb. 2026
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Once at the hospital, Cermak reportedly uttered the line that is engraved on his tomb.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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To give voice to Congolese citizens, Anderson spoke with figures ranging from rebel leaders to medical personnel, from a regional king to an elderly woman tending subsistence crops in a cemetery.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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In Velasco, a town in the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, a man was buried in a cardboard box, his body carted on a wheelbarrow to the cemetery because of a lack of both of wooden coffins and fuel.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
17 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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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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Though her burial exemplified nothing extraordinary, as a woman with no status, the surgery demonstrates that the Pazyryk took care to tend to the sick and injured in their society, regardless of their station, Gizmodo reported.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
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Her body was sent to Iraq for burial, and a Muslim group in Poland buried her baby.—
Elizabeth Flock,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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