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Recent Examples of urn
The remains appeared weathered and pieces of zip ties and a broken urn were also found at the site, the outlet reported.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
According to Texas designer Stephanie Brown of Saint Louise Design, a fern in an antique urn is undoubtedly a Southern trademark.
—Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
According to Texas designer Stephanie Brown of Saint Louise Design, a fern in an antique urn is undoubtedly a Southern trademark.
—Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
Noun
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Netanyahu's office announced earlier on Sunday that Israel received a coffin from the Red Cross inside the Gaza Strip.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Tragically, one of William's next royal engagements would be walking behind his mother's coffin on the day of her funeral.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Stand on your seats and give it up for a genre that refused to flatline, even when the think pieces already had the casket picked out.—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
29 Oct. 2025
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The concept sells niches to hold urns, similar to buying a cemetery plot for a casket.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Solomon peppers his story with generational resentments and art-world posturing, while Soderbergh films the interiors of McKellen’s English townhouse like the inner workings of a sarcophagus.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2025
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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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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
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The Suleymaniye Mosque is considered Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan's most splendid Istanbul mosque, and he himself is buried in a tomb nearby.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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But now, winners of the lottery will be granted the opportunity to buy and restore one of 30 tombs in three different cemeteries, with city hall agreeing to lease the corresponding burial plot to those who meet certain standards.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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