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Jennifer Hassan,
USA Today,
6 July 2026
Mourners chanted non-stop, with no sign of the ayatollah’s coffin more than an hour after the procession’s official start time.
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Xiaoqian Lin,
CNN Money,
6 July 2026
Footage from Iranian state media also showed three of Khamenei's sons—Mostafa, Meysam, and Masoud—crying as the coffins of their father and other family members were carried out into Tehran's Grand Mosalla on Sunday.
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Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
5 July 2026
Local and foreign officials walk past Khamenei's coffin after paying their respects.
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Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
3 July 2026
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Noun
At the ages of 15 and 12, the brothers walked shoulder-to-shoulder behind their mother Princess Diana's coffin in 1997.
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Jennifer Hassan,
USA Today,
6 July 2026
Mourners chanted non-stop, with no sign of the ayatollah’s coffin more than an hour after the procession’s official start time.
—
Xiaoqian Lin,
CNN Money,
6 July 2026
Footage from Iranian state media also showed three of Khamenei's sons—Mostafa, Meysam, and Masoud—crying as the coffins of their father and other family members were carried out into Tehran's Grand Mosalla on Sunday.
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Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
5 July 2026
Local and foreign officials walk past Khamenei's coffin after paying their respects.
—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
3 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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His casket was lined with images of the blue cartoon dog.
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Mavericks fans staged a faux funeral complete with a casket a day later in front of the Dirk Nowitzki statue outside American Airlines Center.
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The bed resists public-facing things, hence its charge as a womb to tomb motif.
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Highlights include the Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid—the world’s oldest pyramid—and the Mastaba of Ti tomb.
Verb
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But instead of trying to make the turn, Diene laid the ball off for Baker, who buried a one-timer into the left side of the net.
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In addition, the group plans to bury a time capsule on July 4 in Philadelphia to be opened on America's 500th birthday in 2276.
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Hall today is entombed at the Signers’ Monument in Augusta alongside Walton.
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Lick died at age 80 just a few months later and is entombed at the observatory.
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If not for the hole, Johnson may have remained in relative obscurity in Spring Grove, a graveyard where the city’s historical elite are interred next to people who never made it into the news.
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After his lie in state honor at the Idaho Capitol and a public funeral in May, Kempthorne was interred at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise.
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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