as in monument
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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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has led the talks with Witkoff, said Tehran soon will offer its response to the U.S. Khamenei's speech Wednesday at the mausoleum of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini may serve as a preview.
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Arkansas Online, 5 June 2025
Two more new mausoleum buildings will eventually join it on the cemetery’s south side.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 June 2025
The ceremony will be held in front of the community mausoleum.
—Heather McRea, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 5 June 2025
Two more new mausoleum buildings will eventually join it on the cemetery’s south side.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 June 2025
The ceremony will be held in front of the community mausoleum.
—Heather McRea, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Even so, last year, the city of Hartford picked up the tab for $150,000 in maintenance that covered cutting down dead trees that posed a safety hazard; hauling away illegally dumped items and removing of overgrowth and mowing around hundreds of headstones and monuments.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.—
Scott Wartman,
The Enquirer,
3 July 2025
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This is the third tomb found at Caracol that dates back to around A.D. 350.—
Kerry Breen
July 10,
CBS News,
10 July 2025
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Discovered in 1902, his bones were sealed inside a ceramic vessel placed in a rock-cut tomb in Nuwayrat, an archaeological site located about 170 miles south of Cairo.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
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And while the Marine Corps at the time worked to remove and relocate the marked graves, experts speculate there were plenty of unmarked burial plots in the area.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2025
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Based on the age of the bones and location of the find, the county medical examiner concluded the remains were likely from an Indigenous grave.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
3 July 2025
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“Mausoleum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mausoleum. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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