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Recent Examples of charnel
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
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Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, has been burned to the ground, a charnel house of mangled corpses.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad, a key Iranian client, might be brought in from the cold and deemed a legitimate actor, twelve years into his run atop the largest charnel house in the world.
—The Editors, National Review, 13 Mar. 2023
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Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, has been burned to the ground, a charnel house of mangled corpses.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad, a key Iranian client, might be brought in from the cold and deemed a legitimate actor, twelve years into his run atop the largest charnel house in the world.
—The Editors, National Review, 13 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
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The nature of the burial and the items found within the tomb suggest that the Señora de Cao was a woman of very high status.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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For the past few weeks, Syrians have converged there to curse, spit and even urinate on the memorial, its high arched ceilings charred from when rebels set the tomb on fire.Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Archaeologists unveiled the remains of a 1st-century building beneath the Soufflot crypt and identified over 100 burials in total.Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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Epithelial cells form in the crypts of villi and migrate to the tips of the villi, where they are shed.Mark Gurarie, Health, 6 Nov. 2024
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Silvo isn't only welcomed by the security droids; he's also immediately taken down to the mint and into one of the vaults housing an absurd amount of Old Republic credits.Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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The Mercantile vaults held silver heirlooms for families off to Bar Harbor in the summer.Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2025
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The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.Al Haas, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
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The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.Joe Yudin, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
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To cope, the 15-year-old has become obsessed with death, sharing weird death facts, flipping through coffin brochures, planning his funeral.Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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Horror fans can chow down on popcorn from inside the coffin while watching Orlok haunt Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin in Nosferatu, the latest from director Robert Eggers.Tommy McArdle, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Thanks to Payraudeau’s research, experts now know that the granite sarcophagus was reused by a high priest named Menkheperre around 1000 B.C.E., masking its connection to its original occupant.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
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Plot details are being kept in the sarcophagus but Cronin is hoping to breathe modern life into ageless evil.Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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