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or mausolea
as in monuments
a stone building with places for the dead bodies of several people or the body of an important person
The cemetery has many mausoleums for some of the cites most notable families.
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But in 2025, law firms are reimagining their offices not as monuments to hierarchy, but as tools for engagement.—
Alaa Pasha,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025 -
Berlin also doesn’t shy away from its complicated history, most notably around World War II and the Holocaust, both of which are directly (and respectfully) confronted across dozens of monuments, museums, and memorials.—
Blane Bachelor,
AFAR Media,
29 Aug. 2025
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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Tyler is visiting the graves of his parents when Capri interrupts.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.—
Seema Jilani
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Mausoleums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mausoleums. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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