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Recent Examples of urnIn a Raleigh bedroom design, Ross styled the nightstand with vintage books, a match striker, a ceramic urn, and oversized beads.—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025 Your body might be burned in an oven and the resulting ashes stored in a decorative urn, though these ashes are not ashes at all but tiny fragments of bone.—Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 When her fight-or-flight instincts kick in, Alex quite rightly beats the daylights out of him with a silver coffee urn.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025 The antique-esque finish of these urns is realistic enough to make guests do a double take, and ask: Is this vintage?—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for urn
What would protect the already unstable sarcophagus while that work was carried out?
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Kim Barker,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
Plot details are being kept in the sarcophagus but it is understood that Costa and Reynor are playing a married couple, who along with their daughter, cross paths with mummy dearest.
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.
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Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
Last year, Francis approved new funeral rites stating his body should be on view in a simple coffin rather than being placed on an elevated bier, per the Associated Press.
Who determined which Egyptians were buried in the tombs?
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Jeff Campagna,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 May 2025
He was laid to rest on Saturday at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in a simple tomb as requested by the late pontiff, following a funeral Mass on the steps of the St. Peter’s Basilica that drew heads of state, royalty and hundreds of thousands of mourners.
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