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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Recent Examples of graveyard
The common trap of entrepreneurial distraction The business graveyard is filled with brilliant ideas that never reached their potential because their creators abandoned them too quickly.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
When the graveyard gets trashed, paranoia takes over, and Karsh pieces the truth together.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
Season 2 opens with a tower of giraffes (yep, that’s what a group is called) strolling through a graveyard of the Firelies Joel (Pedro Pascal) cut down in the Salt Lake City hospital where Ellie (Bella Ramsey) was about to be sacrificed in the hopes of a cure for the cordyceps infection.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Once a silent graveyard of bleached coral, the ocean floor is now crackling with life thanks in part to the use of technology developed by Mars Sustainable Solutions.
—Cat Cardenas, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
When the graveyard gets trashed, paranoia takes over, and Karsh pieces the truth together.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
Season 2 opens with a tower of giraffes (yep, that’s what a group is called) strolling through a graveyard of the Firelies Joel (Pedro Pascal) cut down in the Salt Lake City hospital where Ellie (Bella Ramsey) was about to be sacrificed in the hopes of a cure for the cordyceps infection.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Once a silent graveyard of bleached coral, the ocean floor is now crackling with life thanks in part to the use of technology developed by Mars Sustainable Solutions.
—Cat Cardenas, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graveyard
cemetery
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Located at the intersection of Highways 6 and 13, this cemetery is the final resting place of L.M. Montgomery.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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There are over 150 national cemeteries —including Arlington National Cemetery and Gettysburg National Cemetery — across the country that will sport thousands of American flags every Memorial Day.—
Alex Heigl,
People.com,
26 May 2025
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveyard. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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