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
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.
—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
On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing a new song about dive bar hookups, inconvenient roommates, and a once-red-hot romance fizzling into the tombs of relationship graveyards.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
For its part, Singapore has been aggressively retrofitted according to the whims of capital—its coastline expanded, its graveyards exhumed and paved over, its landmarks destroyed—leaving the populace disoriented.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Advertisements for reenactments of noteworthy murders; placards describing the exact location of old saloons; banners proclaiming Days of ’76; sepia photography studios; graveyards with entrance fees to visit the burial sites of those who created the myths of the Great American West.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
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
On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing a new song about dive bar hookups, inconvenient roommates, and a once-red-hot romance fizzling into the tombs of relationship graveyards.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
For its part, Singapore has been aggressively retrofitted according to the whims of capital—its coastline expanded, its graveyards exhumed and paved over, its landmarks destroyed—leaving the populace disoriented.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Advertisements for reenactments of noteworthy murders; placards describing the exact location of old saloons; banners proclaiming Days of ’76; sepia photography studios; graveyards with entrance fees to visit the burial sites of those who created the myths of the Great American West.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graveyards
cemeteries
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Military officials recovered the remains from around 11,000 graves at cemeteries in the country after the war for identification.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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On its walls are commemorated more than 72,000 British soldiers still missing from the war cemeteries that dot the landscape of the Somme valley, 72,000 people whose bodies were never identified from the carnage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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