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Recent Examples of shrine
Rosales juxtaposes a wall of psychedelic party posters, glowing beneath blacklight, with a roadside shrine of flowers and votive candles remembering loss.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
The complex houses four shrines, the most revered being the Nani Mandir.
—Zia Ur-Rehman Asim Hafeez, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Instead, family and friends have made the Nova site a shrine to beautiful young people who just wanted to dance.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
The shrine was destroyed, its only remaining feature the stone outline of the great east window of the priory built to house the shrine, which stands like a gaping mouth, a howl against its own decreation.
—Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
The complex houses four shrines, the most revered being the Nani Mandir.
—Zia Ur-Rehman Asim Hafeez, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Instead, family and friends have made the Nova site a shrine to beautiful young people who just wanted to dance.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
The shrine was destroyed, its only remaining feature the stone outline of the great east window of the priory built to house the shrine, which stands like a gaping mouth, a howl against its own decreation.
—Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrine
sanctuary
Noun
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The Eaton fire decimated her quaint home in the northwest corner of Altadena near Jane’s Village, reducing her sanctuary to a pile of rubble.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2025
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The desire to leave your personal sanctuary may be low today.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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“Shrine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrine. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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