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Recent Examples of urn
The remains appeared weathered and pieces of zip ties and a broken urn were also found at the site, the outlet reported.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
According to Texas designer Stephanie Brown of Saint Louise Design, a fern in an antique urn is undoubtedly a Southern trademark.
—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
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
According to Texas designer Stephanie Brown of Saint Louise Design, a fern in an antique urn is undoubtedly a Southern trademark.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
Noun
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Jaguar stopped building the XK in 2014, and Infiniti quietly closed the coffin on the Q60 in 2022 after years of neglect.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
10 Oct. 2025
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The hazing investigation was spurred on by an anonymous report that an older fraternity member forced a younger member inside a coffin on the night of the 911 call.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Two seats for passengers in the back fold beneath the area where a casket would perch.—
Laura Lane,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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After investigating the gravesites mentioned by Gein, authorities discovered the caskets to be empty, giving credence to Gein's confession.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 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
Noun
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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
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
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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