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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Writing systems, emerging around 3,500 BCE, evolved into hieroglyphic script on papyrus, stone, and coffins.
—Costa Beavin Pappas, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Republicans on Capitol Hill raised frustrations with the measure even before it was unveiled, and Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesday afternoon added the final nail to the coffin.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024
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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Noun
An honor guard loaded the caisson, a ceremonial wagon designed a century ago to ferry artillery to the battlefront and the wounded and dead to the rear, with an empty coffin.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Writing systems, emerging around 3,500 BCE, evolved into hieroglyphic script on papyrus, stone, and coffins.
—Costa Beavin Pappas, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Republicans on Capitol Hill raised frustrations with the measure even before it was unveiled, and Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesday afternoon added the final nail to the coffin.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
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Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning before Special Air Mission 39 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland took his casket on its final journey.Shirleen Guerra | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Jan. 2025
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Today’s Schedule 12 minutes ago President Carter’s casket will begin the day in the U.S. Capitol rotunda and end in a burial plot beside Rosalynn Carter in Plains, Ga.Kyler Alvord, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
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The tomb provides insights into medical practices of the time and highlights the significance of such figures in ancient society.Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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In São Paulo, where Eunice Paiva, who died in 2018 at 89, is buried, her tomb has reportedly become a pilgrimage site for admirers of this woman who fought for Brazil’s democracy.Alexander Durie, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
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Carter will be buried next to his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, who died on Nov. 19, 2023, at the age of 96.Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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This is one of the director’s better recent efforts, more soaring and less entombed in his cynical, snarky worldview.Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
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The remains of more than 900 Arizona crew members are entombed in the submerged vessel beneath a memorial in their honor.Audrey McAvoy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Hansen’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission.Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
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The results demonstrate that Moche elites were interred with family members, including some raised far from their parental homes.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Residents knelt in silent tribute as hearses carrying the victims passed by on their way to a military cemetery outside the city for burial.Yehor Konovalov and Katie Marie Davies, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
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Fakir’s casket was carried to a white Cadillac LaSalle hearse — the same vintage vehicle that once transported his close friend Aretha Franklin — and he was laid to rest Friday afternoon at Woodlawn Cemetery.Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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