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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
Noun
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Both were eventually buried in a mausoleum in Delhi commissioned by Akbar.—
Tamanna Nangia,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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No wonder prominent families with names such as Boettcher, Bonfils and Phipps chose to spend eternity there, some in private rooms in the mausoleum.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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Only the crypt—the chapel beneath the church—had been partially completed.—
Alicja Zelazko,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The photo of her landing her vault perfectly and then having that ankle give out, only to have her coach Bela Karolyi carry her off the mat, is considered one of the most memorable images in Olympic history.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2026
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The education center and two semi-primitive campgrounds feature vault toilets.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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 scrolls were uncovered during an excavation in the Qurna area on Luxor's West Bank, near the tomb of Seneb.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Its above-ground tombs tell centuries of stories and offer a striking visual unlike any other American burial ground.—
Lauren Schuster,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Additionally through Wondaland Arts Society, Monáe produces Wondaween, a month-long, city-wide Halloween festival to Los Angeles, which spans cemeteries, theaters, secret locations, the Hollywood Bowl and Santa Monica Pier.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
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For the Day 2 stretch between the cemetery and Garden District, the streetcar is both practical and scenic.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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The burial location was in accordance with the wishes of her children.—
Jill Smolowe,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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Traditional burials demand abundant acreage, usually marked off in efficient grids.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
14 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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