as in tombs
an underground burial chamber
the old church's crypt is the final resting place for the president and his beloved wife
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Roskilde’s stately cathedral stands solemn and proud—its royal tombs steeped in centuries of candlelit reverence—while chalk-white Møns Klint plunges into the deep Baltic blue, where fossil hunters comb the shore and peregrine falcons wheel overhead.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025 -
Workers found two pre-Incan tombs during gas line construction, including one holding a 1,000-year-old skeleton.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Cole Hutson, like his brother Lane, vaults up into the top group of prospects following a great 18-year-old season at Boston University.—
Corey Pronman,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install an update fixing a high-severity vulnerability that hackers can exploit to gain administrative access to their vaults.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Crypts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypts. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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