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Recent Examples of coffin
Lynette Rice, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
New Zealanders sent child-sized coffins to help with the demand.
—Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
If the Palestinian people were ever somehow forcibly expelled from Gaza, this crime against humanity would spark widespread conflict, put the final nail in the coffin of international law, and destroy what remains of our nation's international image and standing.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Finally, a coffin was carried from the morgue and placed on the roof of a minivan, which had a photograph of the deceased fixed to the front bumper.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Noun
What viewers didn’t expect, however, was that Barber appeared twice at his character’s own funeral: first as a corpse in the coffin and second, as a grieving woman inside the chapel.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
New Zealanders sent child-sized coffins to help with the demand.
—Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
If the Palestinian people were ever somehow forcibly expelled from Gaza, this crime against humanity would spark widespread conflict, put the final nail in the coffin of international law, and destroy what remains of our nation's international image and standing.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Finally, a coffin was carried from the morgue and placed on the roof of a minivan, which had a photograph of the deceased fixed to the front bumper.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Carter’s casket departed the U.S. Capitol and proceeded to Washington National Cathedral, where a state funeral service began at 10 a.m. ET.—
Renan Botelho,
WWD,
9 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The casket of former President Jimmy Carter arrives at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. for a procession before the funeral on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025.—
Josephine Rozzelle,
CNBC,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In 2022, for instance, Martinez and her team at the University of Santo Domingo discovered a 6.5-foot-tall, 4,300-foot-long tunnel some 40 feet beneath the temple while searching for the tomb.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
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The king later did public penance for this at Becket’s tomb in Canterbury.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Even stripped of defenses, facilities buried deep underground will be hard to destroy.—
Bloomberg Opinion,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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He’s got a secret stash of company intel buried in a trunk.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Today, the gold entombed within the Pacific is estimated to be worth upward of $5 million.—
Joel Sams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 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
Verb
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The individuals were likely interred more than 2,000 years ago, with their graves dating to between 450 and 25 B.C.E.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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At the time Highland was founded in 1909, no cemetery in the city would allow Black families to purchase a burial plot so loved ones could be interred together.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
Verb
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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 21 Feb. 2025.
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