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Recent Examples of columbarium
But on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred.
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Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Regent Barbara Weitz suggested building a columbarium under the football field where fans could have their ashes inurned as part of Memorial Stadium’s next renovation.
—Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
In 2019, the group bought a columbarium with 96 niches to inter ashes for other kinds of service dogs.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2024
Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.
—Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
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Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Regent Barbara Weitz suggested building a columbarium under the football field where fans could have their ashes inurned as part of Memorial Stadium’s next renovation.
—Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
In 2019, the group bought a columbarium with 96 niches to inter ashes for other kinds of service dogs.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2024
Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.
—Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
Noun
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Here, slowly being swallowed by vegetation and worn down by time, are gigantic mausoleums, vast underground cisterns, temples, imposing city walls and a breathtaking theater perched, like Machu Picchu, on a hilltop that offers views stretching for miles all around.—
Barry Neild,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
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Callas lost her voice and retreated to her mausoleum-like apartment on the Avenue Georges Mandel in Paris’ posh sixteenth arrondissement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In Saunders’s afterlife, various spirits join Willie, Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son who has died from typhoid fever, while his father grieves in the crypt.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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In April, a special agent in the Wisconsin Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation, got a search warrant to search Kemmer's crypt at the Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum for bones, hair and teeth to search for DNA evidence to move the case forward.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Somewhere in the Netflix vault is surely a complete video of this set that will likely see the light of day at some point in the future.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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Some traders are warning that a looming shortage of physical silver in London’s vaults could drive prices even higher.—
Benzinga,
Freep.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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Choose Sauternes for golden dessert wines, Arcachon Bay for oysters, and Saint-Émilion’s limestone catacombs.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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What’s a place in L.A. that might be comparable to the catacombs?—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2025
Noun
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The statues were placed on rectangular stone platforms called ahu, which serve as tombs.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
8 Oct. 2025
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Still, no one is ever confirmed as being in the tomb, and Debbie even ponders whether or not Danny is really dead.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
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For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
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The Fet-Fisk chef recommends cemetery wine strolls and late nights at the Squirrel Cage.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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Who’d have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery?—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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The family has chosen to hold a private burial ceremony, with a memorial service to be scheduled at a later date.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Earlier this summer, archaeologists in Gdańsk uncovered an elite knight's burial beneath a former ice cream parlor.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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