crypts

plural of crypt
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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Recent Examples of crypts Likewise, intestinal organoids are steered into developing native types of intestinal cells, including epithelial cells and cells in specialized structures such as crypts. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Nov. 2026 At Penzing Studios, the open-air museum at Bad Windsheim, the fortress at Lichtenau, and sites in Nuremberg, the production found medieval stonework, corridors, chapels, crypts, and staircases suited to the royal court. — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026 One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside. — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026 In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel - an old associate of El Mencho - and Arturo Beltrán Leyva. — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026 In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel — an old associate of El Mencho — and Arturo Beltrán Leyva. — ABC News, 2 Mar. 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 After meeting me at the airport, my guide, Timur Madaminov, brought me to the Mizdaqhan necropolis, a collection of crypts and mausoleums stacked on a hillside like adobe building blocks. — Michael Snyder, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • In August 2025, utility workers digging trenches for a natural gas project in Lima, Peru, uncovered two 1,000-year-old tombs in a single day.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Caere’s cemeteries hold thousands of tombs recording Etruscan societal structures and religious beliefs.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 9 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Ciarán himself has spent an itinerant four years since Brockhampton’s dissolution in 2022 crafting Róisín, a solo debut that looks back through today’s bedroom-pop bricolage into the roomy vaults of D’Angelo and Prince.
    — H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2026
  • LastPass, for example, has been breached a couple of times, but the attackers made off with contact data like names and email addresses, never vaults.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • But passing motorists largely knew nothing of the collection of handmade replica of catacombs, Biblical scenes and Israelite villages beneath it.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Avedon, whose work and career had a big influence on Hujar early on, had produced a series of images of the Palermo catacombs in 1959.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • There are just under 5,000 burial vaults (all above ground), which include imposing mausoleums made of marble.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Under California’s Health and Safety Code, local governments can establish rules for burial, inurnment and entombment, as well as the maintenance of cemeteries, mausoleums and columbariums.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

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“Crypts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypts. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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