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Recent Examples of charnel
His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
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Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—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
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Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
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The city’s monuments, which include several royal palaces, ritual sites and tombs, have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
25 May 2025
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The gravesite also houses the tombs of Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde and has long been a site for fans of the rocker to pay their respects in the area known as Poet's Corner. Paris' official tourism website states that crowds gather there on the anniversary of Morrison's death on July 3 every year.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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This is a departure from tradition, under which many of Francis' predecessors have been laid to rest in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is one of four major papal basilicas, but Pope Francis has broken with tradition in his request to be laid to rest there, rather than in one of the crypts of St Peter’s Basilica inside the Vatican City.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2025
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The 17-year-old has already collected two gold medals at this year’s World Cup circuit, one on vault and another on floor exercise.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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The fact that neither could get off the floor was another negative; Queen’s 23-inch no-step vertical was the worst at the combine, and Broome’s 24 1/2-inch vault was not much better.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
19 May 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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The goalie change did not help much, as Panthers center Aleksander Barkov tipped in an Aaron Ekblad shot on a power play, putting the last nail in Carolina’s Game 2 coffin.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
23 May 2025
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The twins died a month before their 20th birthdays The brothers were laid to rest on March 28, in matching coffins at a cemetery in suburban Atlanta.—
Javon Huynh,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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In an apse, near the site of the sarcophagus, is a sparkling mosaic of Jesus in reddish and gold robes sitting atop the orb of the world.—
Elizabeth Dias,
New York Times,
8 May 2025
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The basilica was built over a white marble sarcophagus that, for some 2,000 years, has been believed to be the tomb of St. Paul. Charles' visit will happen during the Papal Jubilee, a year of forgiveness and reconciliation that is celebrated by the Catholic Church every 25 years.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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