resting place
noun
1
: a place where people can stop and rest
We found a good resting place by the side of the trail.
2
: a place where someone is buried
her final/last resting place
3
: a place where something has been put
The monument was moved to a new resting place.
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That year the county completed a bike wash station and a 15x15-foot canvas canopy that serves as a resting place with shade.
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Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
For many, the serene communal ritual of arriving at the casket’s resting place in the Rotunda offered a respite, if only for a few moments, from the anxiety of a complicated national moment, or the press of everyday concerns — or both.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
The lush habitat provides a resting place as well as food and shelter for migrating monarchs.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
Most of the graveyard’s shipwrecks concentrated where the powerful Columbia River feeds into the Pacific, further south than the Valencia's resting place.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
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Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
For many, the serene communal ritual of arriving at the casket’s resting place in the Rotunda offered a respite, if only for a few moments, from the anxiety of a complicated national moment, or the press of everyday concerns — or both.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
The lush habitat provides a resting place as well as food and shelter for migrating monarchs.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
Most of the graveyard’s shipwrecks concentrated where the powerful Columbia River feeds into the Pacific, further south than the Valencia's resting place.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Resting place.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resting%20place. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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