as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Recent Examples of graveyard
Tidy Entryways and Mudrooms Mudrooms and entryways can be graveyards of clutter.
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Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 22 May 2026
The cemetery is the second oldest graveyard in the San Fernando Valley.
—Holly Andres, Daily News, 20 May 2026
Closer to the audience, there is a graveyard traversed by roving immigration officers.
—Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 20 May 2026
If your bag has ever turned into a graveyard of tangled chargers, this cable organizer pouch will instantly feel like a reset.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
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Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 22 May 2026
The cemetery is the second oldest graveyard in the San Fernando Valley.
—Holly Andres, Daily News, 20 May 2026
Closer to the audience, there is a graveyard traversed by roving immigration officers.
—Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 20 May 2026
If your bag has ever turned into a graveyard of tangled chargers, this cable organizer pouch will instantly feel like a reset.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graveyard
cemetery
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The video showed Disneyland visitors squeezing past the lapbars on the closed ride vehicles and walking around the Haunted Mansion cemetery set amid moving animatronic figures and props.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026
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Excavations at the site are ongoing, and archaeologists hope future work will provide a clearer picture of the people buried there and the role the cemetery played in the final centuries of Heliopolis.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveyard. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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