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Just below the altar, the cinerary casket was banked by a glorious profusion of sweet peas, Reinaldo’s favorite flowers.
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Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
The altars are laden with baked goods, fruit and flowers.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Families, villages, and churches came together in gratitude, building altars laden with food in his honor.
—Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
Maomao tackles the target just as the massive pillar hanging over the altar crashes to the ground.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
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Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
The altars are laden with baked goods, fruit and flowers.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Families, villages, and churches came together in gratitude, building altars laden with food in his honor.
—Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
Maomao tackles the target just as the massive pillar hanging over the altar crashes to the ground.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for altar
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Use my convening power, use my platform as mayor, and then use my pulpit to convene everyone in the city who will touch economic development.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Their majority was led by new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R-Georgia, who dramatically accelerated the trend of shifting that office from a relatively nonpartisan to highly partisan pulpit.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Altar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altar. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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