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Recent Examples of crypt
Following another private ceremony for Brown’s family, his body was moved to his daughter Deanna’s Beech Island home, where it was later stored in an above-ground crypt.
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Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
The film includes scenes shot in memorial sites and underground crypts, still home to victims’ remains, spaces that pushed Rolland to navigate the line between the character and herself as a Rwandan woman.
—Essie Assibu, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
The creepy culprit — or culprits — broke through marble to reach Piga’s casket inside the crypt, her shocked grandson said.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
That is, until Episode 3, when the terrifying harlequin seems to finally appear from the pitch black depths of a crypt inside the Derry cemetery.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
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Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
The film includes scenes shot in memorial sites and underground crypts, still home to victims’ remains, spaces that pushed Rolland to navigate the line between the character and herself as a Rwandan woman.
—Essie Assibu, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
The creepy culprit — or culprits — broke through marble to reach Piga’s casket inside the crypt, her shocked grandson said.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
That is, until Episode 3, when the terrifying harlequin seems to finally appear from the pitch black depths of a crypt inside the Derry cemetery.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crypt
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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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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With light slanting in from a row of windows eight stories above the floor, and an immense vault above, the drill hall has a sacramental feel.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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“Crypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypt. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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