1
as in tomb
a final resting place for a dead person
opened the sepulture and examined the mummy
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2
as in burial
the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place
the final sepulture of the body had to wait until the ground thawed
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Noun
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This is the third tomb found at Caracol that dates back to around A.D. 350.—
Kerry Breen
July 10,
CBS News,
10 July 2025 -
Discovered in 1902, his bones were sealed inside a ceramic vessel placed in a rock-cut tomb in Nuwayrat, an archaeological site located about 170 miles south of Cairo.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
Noun
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Donations poured in to give the infant a proper burial, and officials said 150 people came to her funeral.—
Mike Stunson
July 14,
Kansas City Star,
14 July 2025
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Why has Chaco yielded so few cooking hearths, trash heaps, and burial sites—the typical signs of life left by a busy settlement?—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Their descendants will place U.S. Lighthouse Service badge grave markers on their tombstones, the first time their graves will receive this special medal.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
14 July 2025
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New York city records reportedly show that Cortez died on May 31, 2022 at his home in the Bronx and that he is buried in a potter’s field off the coast of the borough, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Donations poured in to give the infant a proper burial, and officials said 150 people came to her funeral.—
Mike Stunson
July 14,
Kansas City Star,
14 July 2025
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Vásquez Lasso was remembered by friends and family at his funeral as a loyal friend and confidant.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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“Sepulture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepulture. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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