as in cemeteries
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 graveyards
The largest and deepest of these whale graveyards was discovered in the Diamantina Fracture Zone—a deep-sea trench located about 1,400 km (about 870 miles) off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 June 2026
These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a sustaining snack for nearby critters.
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Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
Scientists who recently piloted a submersible to a remote spot in the southeastern Indian Ocean have identified one of the largest and deepest whale graveyards containing hundreds of fossils, including one representing a previously unknown species.
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Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a sustaining snack for nearby critters.
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ABC News,
10 June 2026
Tidy Entryways and Mudrooms Mudrooms and entryways can be graveyards of clutter.
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Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
22 May 2026
The new observations reveal that under the right conditions, even these hostile stellar graveyards can preserve frozen molecules.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
The urge to tame big corporate landlords is bubbling over among locals in woodsy Paulding County, Georgia, an Atlanta exurb where church steeples and old graveyards punctuate the rolling hills, and an 18-foot fiberglass Wonder Woman waves at drivers.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 Feb. 2026
Cities took on the atmosphere of graveyards, and mourning black became the dominant color of daily life.
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Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 June 2026
These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a sustaining snack for nearby critters.
—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
Scientists who recently piloted a submersible to a remote spot in the southeastern Indian Ocean have identified one of the largest and deepest whale graveyards containing hundreds of fossils, including one representing a previously unknown species.
—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a sustaining snack for nearby critters.
—
ABC News,
10 June 2026
Tidy Entryways and Mudrooms Mudrooms and entryways can be graveyards of clutter.
—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
22 May 2026
The new observations reveal that under the right conditions, even these hostile stellar graveyards can preserve frozen molecules.
—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
The urge to tame big corporate landlords is bubbling over among locals in woodsy Paulding County, Georgia, an Atlanta exurb where church steeples and old graveyards punctuate the rolling hills, and an 18-foot fiberglass Wonder Woman waves at drivers.
—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 Feb. 2026
Cities took on the atmosphere of graveyards, and mourning black became the dominant color of daily life.
—
Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graveyards
cemeteries
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University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh Macleod and his colleagues recently sequenced the telltale bacterial DNA in teeth from plague victims at four ancient cemeteries in the area around Russia’s Lake Baikal.
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Willerslev and other researchers looked for traces of plague-causing bacteria in remains from four cemeteries near Siberia's Lake Baikal.
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