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mausoleums

noun

variants or mausolea

plural of mausoleum

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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Recent Examples of mausoleums Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2016 for destroying historic mausoleums in Timbuktu. —

Molly Quell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026 The forts, palaces, gardens, mosques, mausoleums, and even cities that Mughal rulers commissioned reflect their ambition and affluence as much as their tastes and sensibilities. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 Apr. 2026 And then there was the glass—the architect loved the flora and fauna of the city and wanted to bring it into the museum, which is not typical of your encyclopedic mausoleums to culture, walled off from the outside world. —

Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026 In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel — an old associate of El Mencho — and Arturo Beltrán Leyva. —

CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026 In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel - an old associate of El Mencho - and Arturo Beltrán Leyva. —

CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026 In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel — an old associate of El Mencho — and Arturo Beltrán Leyva. —

ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026 Throughout the two-month stretch, authorities responded to Mount Moriah multiple times in regards to a string of burglarized graves and mausoleums. —

David Matthews, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026 For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said. —

Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026

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The livestream will also feature archival images of the moon above some of Rome's most iconic monuments, according to the Virtual Telescope Project.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 30 May 2026
Those marching orders left opponents and free speech advocates in disbelief, wondering how park employees were supposed to put a sunny spin on monuments acknowledging slavery, Jim Crow laws and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026