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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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See inside In Linfen, China, archaeologists uncovered a Yuan Dynasty tomb with a domed ceiling adorned with murals.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Related article Clashes erupt in western India as Hindu groups demand demolition of Mughal ruler’s tomb Modi’s BJP denies using the Mughal emperor’s name to defame India’s Muslims.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Many famous Argentines rest in this labyrinthine city of the dead, brimming with more than 6,400 elaborate, over-the-top mausoleums, crypts, statues, and tombs as stylish and sophisticated as Porteños themselves.—
Blane Bachelor,
AFAR Media,
12 Feb. 2025
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In the crypt where St. Anthony was born, there is a contemporary tile panel illustrating a 1982 visit to the church by Pope John Paul II.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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In response, Trump allies have dug through the vault to hit them with their own words.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Apr. 2025
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In times of rising tension, governments need more gold in their vaults.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 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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On Thursday morning, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department headquarters to protest funding cuts to the global program known as PEPFAR, or the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.—
Orion Rummler,
Them.,
18 Apr. 2025
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While all of the men who had been carrying the coffin faced injuries, the son of Aviles reportedly faced the worst injuries and was knocked out.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Think outside the box, or rather, the sarcophagus, and take your crush to the closest museum to sniff the mummies.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Orlok’s full reveal comes when Ellen’s (Lily-Rose Depp) husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) heads to the crypt and finds the sarcophagus.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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