as in monument
a stone building with places for the dead bodies of several people or the body of an important person
The cemetery has many mausoleums for some of the cites most notable families.
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Recent Examples of mausoleum
The Baroque style palace is still used as a family home, mausoleum and national monument.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Anticipation filled the air Monday as a team of professional movers, overseen by a Chinese official from the mausoleum site museum, unscrewed the final bolts from blue shipping containers containing the artifacts.
—Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
Teddi, 43, revealed on the most recent episode of her Two Ts in a Pod podcast (co-hosted by fellow Housewives alum Tamra Judge) that a prior phone conversation with her 73-year-old singer-songwriter father led to planning her final resting place in the family's Indiana mausoleum.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The security company sent board members pictures with the doors still on the mausoleums.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Anticipation filled the air Monday as a team of professional movers, overseen by a Chinese official from the mausoleum site museum, unscrewed the final bolts from blue shipping containers containing the artifacts.
—Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
Teddi, 43, revealed on the most recent episode of her Two Ts in a Pod podcast (co-hosted by fellow Housewives alum Tamra Judge) that a prior phone conversation with her 73-year-old singer-songwriter father led to planning her final resting place in the family's Indiana mausoleum.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The security company sent board members pictures with the doors still on the mausoleums.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mausoleum
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Take any major African American institution or monument—Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Obama Presidential Center, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial—and McKissack & McKissack was likely connected to the construction or design, with Deryl McKissack at the helm.—
Maggie McGrath,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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In 2017, after a competency hearing, Gille was found not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of dismemberment and mutilation of dead bodies and malicious destruction of tombs and monuments, court records show.—
Arpan Lobo,
Freep.com,
29 July 2025
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For centuries, this fungus was feared as a silent killer lurking in ancient tombs, responsible for mysterious deaths and the legend of the pharaoh’s curse.—
Justin Stebbing,
JSTOR Daily,
24 July 2025
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Firemen in their command center calm the fears of the locals who call in, law enforcement tracks down tomb robbers, while in the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian tankers unload Ukrainian grain.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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The brothers were buried in a single grave, their white caskets stacked gently atop each other.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
29 July 2025
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While trying to walk through Bay Ridge, where a netting of low-growing vegetation latches onto shoes, a visitor can find small American flags poking out of weeds that draw attention to graves for veterans of World War I, World War II and other wars not identified.—
Brian Bell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 July 2025
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“Mausoleum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mausoleum. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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