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Recent Examples of charnel
Flaherty’s descriptions of both the highs (rubies) and lows (charnel houses) of nonstop writing struck me as alien.
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Molly Young, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
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Molly Young, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.
—Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charnel
Noun
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Even so, someone fired gunshots into the tomb, shattering part of the structure.—
Daniel Wilkerson,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
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Devotees often visit their tombs to seek a miraculous intervention.—
Vanessa Corcoran,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Queen Camilla attended a short reception following the service in the crypt to meet Guild members and students supported by a Guild bursary.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Roughly 400 are interred in crypts, about 300 in niches, and approximately 15,000 in traditional burial plots.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Kylie Cosmetics founder typically works with stylist Alexander Rose to pull feminine, form-fitting pieces from Schiaparelli, Ashi Studio or the vault of Versace.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
14 Feb. 2026
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If Nintendo keeps a padlock on its secrets, then Miyamoto’s mind is a bank vault.—
Chris Plante,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Enclave, Buick’s large, three-row crossover, has been redesigned for 2018, allowing the automaker to finally place its predecessor in a sepulchre and seal the entrance.—
Al Haas,
Philly.com,
28 June 2018
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The Garden Tomb, is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus.—
Joe Yudin,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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On Friday, September 5, the coffin was moved to Kensington Palace; the following morning, she was buried at Althorp.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
6 Feb. 2026
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Mourners carried his coffin in the town of Bani Walid, 91 miles southeast of the capital, Tripoli, as well as large photographs of both Seif al-Islam, who was known mostly by his first name, and his father.—
Yousef Murad,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Snook took The Picture of Dorian Gray to Broadway, and although no one’s saying so out loud, Dracula is likely going to rest in their sarcophagus and be transported to New York as well.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
24 Dec. 2025
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In a way, the old barrel filling house and the distillery’s cooperage function as an eerie sarcophagus for the bourbon industry’s downfall in the 1980s.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Charnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charnel. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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