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Recent Examples of coffin
Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
One of them was then eliminated from the game while the other two were framed as guilty of placing themselves in the coffin.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
The emergence of widely available generative AI has felt, for many, like the final nail in the coffin for writers.
—Susie Alegre, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2025
After the discovery of the coffin, a team of archaeologists from Headland Archaeology safely removed the artifact.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Noun
However, this is likely the final nail in the coffin for a CBA agreement to happen without a major lockout/strike as the majority of owners will want a salary cap and other major structural changes and are unlikely to be able to work it out amongst themselves.
—Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
One of them was then eliminated from the game while the other two were framed as guilty of placing themselves in the coffin.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
The emergence of widely available generative AI has felt, for many, like the final nail in the coffin for writers.
—Susie Alegre, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2025
After the discovery of the coffin, a team of archaeologists from Headland Archaeology safely removed the artifact.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning before Special Air Mission 39 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland took his casket on its final journey.—
Shirleen Guerra | The Center Square,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
10 Jan. 2025
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Today’s Schedule 12 minutes ago President Carter’s casket will begin the day in the U.S. Capitol rotunda and end in a burial plot beside Rosalynn Carter in Plains, Ga.—
Kyler Alvord,
People.com,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Verb
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After all, the stuff has been buried for what, seven decades, so what’s the big deal?—
Jim Clash,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Apparently, Jane was buried in a field with dozens upon dozens of other people with no markers.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
Verb
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This is one of the director’s better recent efforts, more soaring and less entombed in his cynical, snarky worldview.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2024
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The remains of more than 900 Arizona crew members are entombed in the submerged vessel beneath a memorial in their honor.—
Audrey McAvoy,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The gravestones are numbered to reflect the burial system that was developed to properly inter hundreds of victims whose bodies were never claimed or identified.—
Jennifer Jett,
NBC News,
26 Dec. 2024
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Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Hansen’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission.—
Drake Bentley,
Journal Sentinel,
20 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Residents knelt in silent tribute as hearses carrying the victims passed by on their way to a military cemetery outside the city for burial.—
Yehor Konovalov and Katie Marie Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Sep. 2024
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Fakir’s casket was carried to a white Cadillac LaSalle hearse — the same vintage vehicle that once transported his close friend Aretha Franklin — and he was laid to rest Friday afternoon at Woodlawn Cemetery.—
Brian McCollum,
Detroit Free Press,
2 Aug. 2024
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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