as in cemeteries
a piece of land used for burying the dead
criminals and unidentified people are sometimes buried in a potter's field
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Noun
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Coyotes make homes in tiny green spaces across cities like small patches of forest, golf courses or cemeteries.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
17 Feb. 2026 -
Some of the work my students most enjoyed was mapping small local cemeteries in and around southwest Ohio.—
Robbyn Abbitt,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2026
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Cities took on the atmosphere of graveyards, and mourning black became the dominant color of daily life.—
Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing a new song about dive bar hookups, inconvenient roommates, and a once-red-hot romance fizzling into the tombs of relationship graveyards.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Potter's fields.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potter%27s%20fields. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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