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Recent Examples of coffin
Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
One of the most poignant choices is to intercut scratchy film of the train that in 1921 transported the Unknown Soldier to Rome in a coffin draped with patriotic banners and flowers, to be enshrined in the Altar of the Fatherland with an eternal flame at the Vittorio Emanuele II monument.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The final nail in the coffin for the city came last week, when the Third DCA denied the city’s request for a rehearing in the case.
—Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
While pumpkin spice menu options are the harbinger of fall and Labor Day officially marks its beginning, the start of football season is the true nail in the coffin for summer.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The coffin will then be taken by hearse to the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore in Windsor.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
One of the most poignant choices is to intercut scratchy film of the train that in 1921 transported the Unknown Soldier to Rome in a coffin draped with patriotic banners and flowers, to be enshrined in the Altar of the Fatherland with an eternal flame at the Vittorio Emanuele II monument.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The final nail in the coffin for the city came last week, when the Third DCA denied the city’s request for a rehearing in the case.
—Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
While pumpkin spice menu options are the harbinger of fall and Labor Day officially marks its beginning, the start of football season is the true nail in the coffin for summer.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffin
Noun
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Vance was seen carrying Kirk’s casket on the tarmac in Salt Lake City, Utah, while it was being loaded onto Air Force Two.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Last week, after the assassination, Vance and his wife, Usha, met with Kirk's family in Salt Lake City, Utah, and flew with them on Air Force Two as Kirk's casket was brought home to Arizona.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.—
Peter Hessler,
The New Yorker,
26 June 2023
Verb
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Jax heterosexually admired Jade Cargill’s body, but buried Jade’s in-ring ability.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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Two weeks after Priscilla's grandson Benjamin Keough, the son of the late Lisa Marie Presley and her ex-husband Danny Keough, was buried following his death by suicide at age 27 in 2020, Navarone, 38, came to his mom asking for help getting off fentanyl.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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The offcuts were entombed, encased in this diamond and preserved.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
27 Aug. 2025
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That means the bodies weren’t treated or stored properly, with the funeral home failing to embalm, refrigerate, cremate, bury or entomb the remains within 24 hours of taking custody, according to the suspension documents.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Aug. 2025
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The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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More to Explore Speleologists found Mörk’s remains and interred them in the Eisriesenwelt in 1925.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Cadillac hearse that’s from the auction is part of local lore as well, Foley said.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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There was Ozzy’s hearse up front and the family in about five black SUVs following us.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
30 July 2025
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffin. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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