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Recent Examples of urn
Inside that home, Anjelita built a small altar around Ayelli’s urn as a memorial to her unborn child, who her three sons — ages 9, 6 and 3 — will never meet.
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack.
—Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Exclusive memorabilia include Tanya’s infamous urn that held her mother’s ashes, Armond’s now-iconic pink linen suit with The White Lotus lapel pin, and Olivia’s mushroom bucket hat.
—Kim Westerman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
For example, landscape designer Scott Shrader chose a classic blue urn to fit in with a home’s Spanish-style architecture and add a note of color amid the landscape’s narrow palette.
—Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2025
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack.
—Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Exclusive memorabilia include Tanya’s infamous urn that held her mother’s ashes, Armond’s now-iconic pink linen suit with The White Lotus lapel pin, and Olivia’s mushroom bucket hat.
—Kim Westerman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
For example, landscape designer Scott Shrader chose a classic blue urn to fit in with a home’s Spanish-style architecture and add a note of color amid the landscape’s narrow palette.
—Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
Noun
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The final nail in the coffin was hammered by Carroll, who sent a first-pitch 84 mph curveball from Slaten 375 feet to right field for a three-run homer.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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The coffin will then be taken by hearse to the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore in Windsor.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Below, a white light shines out from behind the casket.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2025
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The hug was lying on the casket.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Archaeologists were unsure of what the entire scene depicted until the sarcophagus was handed over to the IAA's conservation team — who assembled the fragments.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2025
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That could produce a similar effect to the sarcophagus built around Chernobyl after the disaster in 1986, Bretton-Gordon said.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
Noun
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While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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Inside the 16th-century basilica, his casket won't be put on an elevated bier—as was the case with past popes—but will just be placed on the main alta, simply facing the pews.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Acutis' tomb in Assisi—his body displayed in a wax replica and dressed in casual clothes and sneakers—has become a major pilgrimage site, and relics associated with him have toured internationally.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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His tomb is livestreamed 24/7 via a webcam.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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