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Recent Examples of crypt
Plans also call for a seventh-floor restaurant and a publicly accessible green rooftop with panoramic city views, alongside the preservation and integration of a 13th-century medieval crypt.
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Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026
The decision to remove them from the crypt and welcome pilgrims for a month is a means to keep his message alive and give Christians a chance to pray before them, officials said.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
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
The oldest part of the castle dates to the year 1000 and has a small frescoed crypt dedicated to San Lorenzo.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
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Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026
The decision to remove them from the crypt and welcome pilgrims for a month is a means to keep his message alive and give Christians a chance to pray before them, officials said.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
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
The oldest part of the castle dates to the year 1000 and has a small frescoed crypt dedicated to San Lorenzo.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crypt
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Christians recognize Good Friday as the day Jesus Christ was crucified, died and was buried in a tomb.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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It is believed that early Christians adapted this idea, viewing the egg as a symbol of Jesus' resurrection and the empty shell as a symbol for the empty tomb.—
Catherine Messier,
The Providence Journal,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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With the song in expert hands, Dave Meyer, the commercial’s director, asked to add other off-kilter elements, including a plotline about Nickelback and Megan stealing new Cheetos from a vault and loading them on to a giant truck that would also serve as their escape vehicle.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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Suffice to say, the ingredients (now in my vault) are very high quality.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
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Recently built, the mausoleum at the Tafi Viejo cemetery in Tucuman has most of its niches still empty, awaiting new identifications.—
Débora Rey,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Bulldozers and dynamite demolished the modernist mausoleum of Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Crypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypt. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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