as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Essex, 44, had added floating ghosts to the display that hovered over the moody graveyard, without using special effects.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
By the middle of summer, however, the genre had demonstrated a Voorhees-like ability to resurrect itself from the cinematic graveyard, delivering a run of surprising hits.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Emmerich the necromancer spends his time in graveyards talking to the dead and being attended to by his skeletal servant Manfred.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Them, 28 Oct. 2024
The types of rocks found in the underground of a graveyard play an important role in the decay of corpses.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
By the middle of summer, however, the genre had demonstrated a Voorhees-like ability to resurrect itself from the cinematic graveyard, delivering a run of surprising hits.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Emmerich the necromancer spends his time in graveyards talking to the dead and being attended to by his skeletal servant Manfred.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Them, 28 Oct. 2024
The types of rocks found in the underground of a graveyard play an important role in the decay of corpses.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveyard. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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