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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Recent Examples of boneyards
Many fire engines are mothballed in city boneyards, and the department has lost nearly 50 more firefighters since the Palisades fire.
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Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boneyards
Noun
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The national holiday on the last Monday in May typically includes community gatherings and visits to cemeteries to decorate graves with American flags.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
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Many land requirements for cemeteries like fencing or paved roads were designed with conventional burial plots in mind, said Sarah Chavez, executive director of Order of the Good Death, a group that advocates for positive deathcare experiences.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
Noun
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The new observations reveal that under the right conditions, even these hostile stellar graveyards can preserve frozen molecules.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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The urge to tame big corporate landlords is bubbling over among locals in woodsy Paulding County, Georgia, an Atlanta exurb where church steeples and old graveyards punctuate the rolling hills, and an 18-foot fiberglass Wonder Woman waves at drivers.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Boneyards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boneyards. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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