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Recent Examples of urn
According to Texas designer Stephanie Brown of Saint Louise Design, a fern in an antique urn is undoubtedly a Southern trademark.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
Noun
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Two coffins are also displayed on either side of the gallows, which sits beneath a second, larger Mexican flag, according to FNTV.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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The waterless Wadi Hammamat between the Nile and the Red Sea was quarried for the siltstone formed from ancient river sediment that had hardened over millions of years to provide a limitless supply of stone coffins (sarcophagi).—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The funeral was closed casket—an uncommon thing for Catholics back then—because my mother did not want people to see the work the undertakers had to do to stitch my father back together.—
Jon Michael Varese,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2025
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The video for the song features HARDY singing while lying in a casket in the ground— imagery that isn’t entirely foreign to him.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 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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Archaeologists in southern Spain have uncovered one of Andalusia’s most monumental and best-preserved prehistoric dolmens, or tombs.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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Searching for Cleopatra’s tomb The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said last December in a social media post that Martínez and her team also made new discoveries beneath the southern wall of the Taposiris Magna’s outer enclosure.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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