graveyard
noun
grave·yard
ˈgrāv-ˌyärd 
1
: cemetery
2
: something resembling a graveyard
an automobile graveyard
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reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Smearing myself with Max Factor blood and crawling around an Arab graveyard at five o’clock in the morning as the sun rose over the pyramids was absolute insanity.
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Israel is expanding by turning Gaza into a mass graveyard.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
The Mediterranean Sea is probably the largest graveyard in the world, full of people who didn’t make it.
—Hazlitt, 25 Dec. 2024
Blades are frequently buried in fragments in several landfills throughout the Great Plains, transforming sites in Wyoming, Iowa, and South Dakota into wind turbine graveyards.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Israel is expanding by turning Gaza into a mass graveyard.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
The Mediterranean Sea is probably the largest graveyard in the world, full of people who didn’t make it.
—Hazlitt, 25 Dec. 2024
Blades are frequently buried in fragments in several landfills throughout the Great Plains, transforming sites in Wyoming, Iowa, and South Dakota into wind turbine graveyards.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Graveyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graveyard. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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