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memorial parks

noun

plural of memorial park

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a piece of land used for burying the dead Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, is the memorial park that serves as the final resting place for many of Hollywood's greatest

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Recent Examples of memorial parks Memorial Day observances were also held at Forest Lawn memorial parks in Covina Hills, Hollywood Hills and Glendale. — Daily News, 25 May 2026

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Hale, a necrologist who originally focused on the graves of Union Civil War veterans, was hired by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s to survey burial plots at more than 2,000 cemeteries across Connecticut.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026
Author and photographer Paul Koudounaris has spent more than a decade researching and photographing pet cemeteries and studying the connections between people and animals.

— Felicia Feaster, USA Today, 17 July 2026

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The desert — churned, sucked, and acid-washed — rests in these graveyards of the Anthropocene.

— Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
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.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026

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