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Recent Examples of urn
In a Raleigh bedroom design, Ross styled the nightstand with vintage books, a match striker, a ceramic urn, and oversized beads.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
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On Thursday morning, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department headquarters to protest funding cuts to the global program known as PEPFAR, or the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.—
Orion Rummler,
Them.,
18 Apr. 2025
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While all of the men who had been carrying the coffin faced injuries, the son of Aviles reportedly faced the worst injuries and was knocked out.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Consequently, as the Longacre exhumation shows, Polly was buried in Longacre’s casket, and Arthur couldn’t bear to strip his father of his dignity.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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Beginning the week of June 2, soldiers, their horses and the caisson will carry caskets for two funerals a day and a maximum of 10 per week.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Mar. 2025
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What would protect the already unstable sarcophagus while that work was carried out?—
Kim Barker,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 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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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.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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See inside In Linfen, China, archaeologists uncovered a Yuan Dynasty tomb with a domed ceiling adorned with murals.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Related article Clashes erupt in western India as Hindu groups demand demolition of Mughal ruler’s tomb Modi’s BJP denies using the Mughal emperor’s name to defame India’s Muslims.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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