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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
Noun
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What kind of coffin is Francis being buried in? Pope Francis' coffin also breaks with papal tradition.—
Susan Miller,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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Prince William attended on behalf of the UK’s King Charles and was seen paying his respects in front of Francis’s coffin ahead of the service.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Who determined which Egyptians were buried in the tombs?—
Jeff Campagna,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 May 2025
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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.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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