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Recent Examples of crypt
Officers found a gravesite dug open, along with the crypt and casket broken open.
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Kansas City Star, 3 July 2025
The veterans cemetery’s first phase of development, which would not include crypts to bury caskets, was projected in 2023 to cost $123 million to develop.
—Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
But Princess Alice is not buried amongst the stone crypts on the hillside.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
It was found in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
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Kansas City Star, 3 July 2025
The veterans cemetery’s first phase of development, which would not include crypts to bury caskets, was projected in 2023 to cost $123 million to develop.
—Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
But Princess Alice is not buried amongst the stone crypts on the hillside.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
It was found in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crypt
Noun
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The 2,300-year-old tomb had two rooms — an entrance chamber and a burial chamber — originally connected with a double door, archaeologists said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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The animal was originally a zhènmùshòu, a monumental, fierce, lion-like tomb guardian from the Tang Dynasty, the authors speculate.—
Amy Woodyatt,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The vault-like room with its large steel access doors held all of the recovered pieces—about 40 percent of the total orbiter—and was a departure from what NASA had done after its previous spaceflight disasters.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Faulí showed me where Gaudí had begun building a traditional Gothic rib to support the vault.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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The rituals also include his visits early next week to Ise, Japan’s top Shinto shrine, the mausoleum of the mythical first emperor Jinmu in Nara, as well as that of his late great-grandfather, wartime emperor Hirohito, in the Tokyo suburbs.—
Mari Yamaguchi,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
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The phone box has an important connection to its location, as the man who designed the K2 model of classic British phone boxes, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, drew inspiration from the Dulwich Picture Gallery's mausoleum when creating its unique shape.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Crypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crypt. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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