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In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxury crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel — an old associate of El Mencho — and Arturo Beltrán Leyva.
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ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
Plans also call for a seventh-floor restaurant and a publicly accessible green rooftop with panoramic city views, alongside the preservation and integration of a 13th-century medieval crypt.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026
The decision to remove them from the crypt and welcome pilgrims for a month is a means to keep his message alive and give Christians a chance to pray before them, officials said.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
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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ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
Plans also call for a seventh-floor restaurant and a publicly accessible green rooftop with panoramic city views, alongside the preservation and integration of a 13th-century medieval crypt.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026
The decision to remove them from the crypt and welcome pilgrims for a month is a means to keep his message alive and give Christians a chance to pray before them, officials said.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crypt
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Christians recognize Good Friday as the day Jesus Christ was crucified, died and was buried in a tomb.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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It is believed that early Christians adapted this idea, viewing the egg as a symbol of Jesus' resurrection and the empty shell as a symbol for the empty tomb.—
Catherine Messier,
The Providence Journal,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Yet key dramatic moments—a shooting, the robbers’ realization that the bank vault is empty—occurred in a hallway invisible to the audience, described secondhand.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Simone's parents were just as dazzled by her skills as the rest of the world when the gymnast competed in the women's vault event final during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in August of that year.—
Matthew Acosta,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026
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Both were eventually buried in a mausoleum in Delhi commissioned by Akbar.—
Tamanna Nangia,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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No wonder prominent families with names such as Boettcher, Bonfils and Phipps chose to spend eternity there, some in private rooms in the mausoleum.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Crypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypt. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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