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Recent Examples of columbarium
The Diocese of Nashville has an on-site columbarium at its Calvary Cemetery in Nashville, and a few more churches in the area are moving forward with.
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Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
The crematory, which was built in the fifties, shares a building with the executive offices, a columbarium, and two modern chapels.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Remains end up either in a niche purchased in the columbarium, or sprinkled on the cemetery's Memorial Green set aside for that purpose.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
But on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred.
—Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
The crematory, which was built in the fifties, shares a building with the executive offices, a columbarium, and two modern chapels.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Remains end up either in a niche purchased in the columbarium, or sprinkled on the cemetery's Memorial Green set aside for that purpose.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
But on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred.
—Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
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After her death, the emperor commissioned the white-marble Taj Mahal mausoleum in Agra, India as a tribute to her.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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In 1989, Ferdinand Marcos died and was buried at a mausoleum outside Honolulu alongside his favorite pajamas and golf cap.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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His only book, Portraits in Life and Death (1976), juxtaposed photos of people in his circle and with images of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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For his role as Erik, the disfigured organist who haunts the catacombs of the Paris opera house, Chaney underwent a dramatic — and painful — transformation that involved pulling back his nostrils with piano wire to create a skeletal look.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
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They were charged after a 2009 FBI and Cook County sheriff’s office investigation revealed 1,500 bones of at least 29 people sprawled across the grounds at Alsip’s Burr Oak Cemetery — the same cemetery where lynching victim Emmett Till is buried.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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This meant the city was now solely and fully responsible for the management and maintenance of this historic and active cemetery.—
Robbyn Abbitt,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2026
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Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
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For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
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Beyond the number of cillíní and burial sites uncovered, the practices surrounding these unconsecrated grounds reveal a complex emotional landscape marked by grief, shame, and trauma, according to the press release.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026
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His body was donated to medical education, and a Mass of Christian burial is pending.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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