as in cemeteries
a piece of land used for burying the dead
a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town
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Noun
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As these babies were unbaptized, their cemeteries often sank into obscurity, and integrating folklore into heritage protection is vital.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026 -
Private cemeteries are often out of reach for many families, and public cemeteries are quickly filling up.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Cities took on the atmosphere of graveyards, and mourning black became the dominant color of daily life.—
Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing a new song about dive bar hookups, inconvenient roommates, and a once-red-hot romance fizzling into the tombs of relationship graveyards.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Boneyards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boneyards. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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