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Recent Examples of coffin
Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
The concussive sound of the first shovelful of dirt on the pine coffin, like the rending of the garment, shockingly tactile.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
But Azzi Fudd began to put the nail in the coffin in the third quarter, dropping 11 of her 24 points in the frame.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2025
This was almost certainly the final nail in the coffin.
—Harman Dayal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Lucas was known for boasting about smuggling heroin from Southeast Asia to the U.S. by using the coffins of dead American military members.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
The concussive sound of the first shovelful of dirt on the pine coffin, like the rending of the garment, shockingly tactile.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
But Azzi Fudd began to put the nail in the coffin in the third quarter, dropping 11 of her 24 points in the frame.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2025
This was almost certainly the final nail in the coffin.
—Harman Dayal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Consequently, as the Longacre exhumation shows, Polly was buried in Longacre’s casket, and Arthur couldn’t bear to strip his father of his dignity.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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Beginning the week of June 2, soldiers, their horses and the caisson will carry caskets for two funerals a day and a maximum of 10 per week.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
Verb
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Most of those minerals are currently buried beneath thick sheets of previously impenetrable ice.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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Two to three weeks after burying the branch, check for new roots.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Behind the closet door lay her old ambitions, entombed.—
Hannah Gold,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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By the night of Sunday, January 13, 1952, snow would bury the train, entombing everyone inside for the next three days.—
Robert Klara,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The remains were interred at U.S. Military Cemetery Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, near Omaha Beach, and marked as X-159 St. Laurent.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2025
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When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.—
John von Sothen,
airmail.news,
15 Mar. 2025
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But outside, under the church portico, two long hearses — one black, one white — waited.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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