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a piece of land used for burying the dead
many of the soldiers who died in the battle are buried in a cemetery nearby
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Recent Examples of cemeteries
The National Flag Foundation sent an American flag to all the states, territories and military cemeteries around the world.
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Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, churches, monasteries, mosques, synagogues, prayer houses, cemeteries, and religious schools have been damaged or destroyed.
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Mark Temnycky,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh Macleod and his colleagues recently sequenced the telltale bacterial DNA in teeth from plague victims at four ancient cemeteries in the area around Russia’s Lake Baikal.
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ArsTechnica,
18 June 2026
Willerslev and other researchers looked for traces of plague-causing bacteria in remains from four cemeteries near Siberia's Lake Baikal.
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ABC News,
17 June 2026
Two of the largest cemeteries contained an unusually large number of children and young adolescents whose remains lacked any trauma or apparent cause of death.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
On its walls are commemorated more than 72,000 British soldiers still missing from the war cemeteries that dot the landscape of the Somme valley, 72,000 people whose bodies were never identified from the carnage.
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Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
Making space to grieve and remember Looking ahead, Frost and Amoui plan to acquire more cemeteries.
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Sophie Caldwell,
CNBC,
26 May 2026
Survey123 lists the surveys related to the project and allows users to search in local cemeteries, according to Horrocks.
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Chelsea Torres,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, churches, monasteries, mosques, synagogues, prayer houses, cemeteries, and religious schools have been damaged or destroyed.
—
Mark Temnycky,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh Macleod and his colleagues recently sequenced the telltale bacterial DNA in teeth from plague victims at four ancient cemeteries in the area around Russia’s Lake Baikal.
—
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2026
Willerslev and other researchers looked for traces of plague-causing bacteria in remains from four cemeteries near Siberia's Lake Baikal.
—
ABC News,
17 June 2026
Two of the largest cemeteries contained an unusually large number of children and young adolescents whose remains lacked any trauma or apparent cause of death.
—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
On its walls are commemorated more than 72,000 British soldiers still missing from the war cemeteries that dot the landscape of the Somme valley, 72,000 people whose bodies were never identified from the carnage.
—
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
Making space to grieve and remember Looking ahead, Frost and Amoui plan to acquire more cemeteries.
—
Sophie Caldwell,
CNBC,
26 May 2026
Survey123 lists the surveys related to the project and allows users to search in local cemeteries, according to Horrocks.
—
Chelsea Torres,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cemeteries
graveyards
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The largest and deepest of these whale graveyards was discovered in the Diamantina Fracture Zone—a deep-sea trench located about 1,400 km (about 870 miles) off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.
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These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a sustaining snack for nearby critters.
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“Cemeteries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cemeteries. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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