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Pope and Sarah volunteer to go into the catacombs, but Lightner and Dalia reach the tombs first and steal a scroll hidden there.
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Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Time: the passage from the first part of the book, the twenty-nine portraits of living people, to the second, the eleven pictures of mummified corpses taken in 1963 in the Palermo catacombs.
—Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Time will tell if Mr. Macron, whose approval ratings have also sunk to the depths of the Paris catacombs, will seek to benefit from the city’s Olympic triumph.
—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Hidden underneath the road is a network of catacombs containing the remains of Christian converts.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
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Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Time: the passage from the first part of the book, the twenty-nine portraits of living people, to the second, the eleven pictures of mummified corpses taken in 1963 in the Palermo catacombs.
—Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Time will tell if Mr. Macron, whose approval ratings have also sunk to the depths of the Paris catacombs, will seek to benefit from the city’s Olympic triumph.
—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Hidden underneath the road is a network of catacombs containing the remains of Christian converts.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catacomb
Noun
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There are endless ruins to discover… the remains of villas, palaces, theaters, castles, churches, tombs, and more... The Paphos Mosaics are one of the finest examples of ancient mosaics in the Eastern Mediterranean and should absolutely be at the top of your must-see list.Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The fights are silly; the final scene in the tomb is bizarrely quick and awkward.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The trajectory of another famous figure in the Warner Bros. vault offers an example, Oberschelp says.Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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The owner kept the dime in an Ohio bank vault for more than 40 years.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Time to get back to Viti, tied up in the crypt and on the verge of freezing to death.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
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His remains are in an urn, in a crypt in the medieval cathedral in the town of Santiago de Compostela.Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Catacomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catacomb. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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