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Recent Examples of urn
And yeah, and then families can take it all or just take a smaller urn-sized portion, totally up to them.
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Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
Resident Heather Lemcool claimed, per the outlet, that the human remains were in a box and plastic bag, rather than an urn.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
To make the fall decoration, cut a square of florists foam and place it inside a plastic urn or large hanging basket.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Not even a condolence letter with her urn.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
Resident Heather Lemcool claimed, per the outlet, that the human remains were in a box and plastic bag, rather than an urn.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
To make the fall decoration, cut a square of florists foam and place it inside a plastic urn or large hanging basket.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Not even a condolence letter with her urn.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
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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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As his casket was escorted to the Maranatha Baptist Church, which had become something of a second home to him, the whole community lined the familiar streets with signs of affection toward their local hero.—
Kyler Alvord,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
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Asked organizers if there will be a body inside the casket.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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In a way, the old barrel filling house and the distillery’s cooperage function as an eerie sarcophagus for the bourbon industry’s downfall in the 1980s.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Dec. 2025
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The team had already excavated the other three corners of a narrow tomb occupied by an imposing, unnamed sarcophagus.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 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 Jan. 2026.
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