variants or sepulcher
as in tomb
a final resting place for a dead person a poem describing the forgotten sepulcher of a valiant knight of the Middle Ages

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Recent Examples of sepulchre The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance. Al Haas, Philly.com, 28 June 2018 The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus. Joe Yudin, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
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  • That includes 100,000 artifacts, one of which will be the famed tomb of King Tutankhamun; the entire collection of Tut’s tomb will be on display for the first time since its discovery back in 1922.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The exact size of the tombs was not provided but, based on photos from the excavation, the structures are roughly child-sized.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
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  • Mourners march with the bodies of the Al Jazeera journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, from Al-Shifa hospital to their burial at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City, on August 11, 2025.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • His daughter Carnie Wilson, singer of the Nineties trio Wilson Phillips, wrote a heartfelt post on Instagram about her father’s burial.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2025

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“Sepulchre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepulchre. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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