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Recent Examples of coffin
Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Young people danced around the coffin while waving a Kenyan flag.
—Nicholas Komu, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
In the early 19th century, the body and coffins were acquired by the brothers Robert and William Garnett.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025
Following the Queen’s death in September 2022, it was expected to transport her coffin from Scotland to London but was sidelined due to concerns about security along the route.
—Ben Jones, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
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Verb
Archaeologists have spotted it on ancient coffins, sculptures, murals and ceramics.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Young people danced around the coffin while waving a Kenyan flag.
—Nicholas Komu, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
In the early 19th century, the body and coffins were acquired by the brothers Robert and William Garnett.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025
Following the Queen’s death in September 2022, it was expected to transport her coffin from Scotland to London but was sidelined due to concerns about security along the route.
—Ben Jones, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Other green burials, which avoid embalming chemicals and use biodegradable caskets, already are legal in Minnesota.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
16 July 2025
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Caisson units provide horses and soldiers to pull caskets at military funerals.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
9 July 2025
Noun
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For centuries, this fungus was feared as a silent killer lurking in ancient tombs, responsible for mysterious deaths and the legend of the pharaoh’s curse.—
Justin Stebbing,
JSTOR Daily,
24 July 2025
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Firemen in their command center calm the fears of the locals who call in, law enforcement tracks down tomb robbers, while in the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian tankers unload Ukrainian grain.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
Verb
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Prince Friso was in a skiing accident in February 2012, getting buried under an avalanche, which led to brain damage and falling into a coma.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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Some mourners openly wept, burying their faces in the Palestinian flags wrapped around the bodies.—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
14 July 2025
Verb
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The ancient Romans built a vast network of aqueducts and canals to harness this semiaquatic environment, now entombed beneath modern Rome.—
Krista Langlois,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
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At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to 8 million residents — millions of pounds of waste are stranded, entombed in concrete, waiting for the federal government to figure out what the bloody heck to do with it.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
18 June 2025
Verb
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Francis is the first pope in over a century not to be interred at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Like yesterday, and the days before, she is interred in the ground up to her waist, the afterthought of some unnamed apocalypse.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
Verb
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Police vans and hearses were among the only available vehicles large enough to transport someone lying down.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 May 2025
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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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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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