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Recent Examples of reliquary
Each of these reliquary sculptures reminds us that art can register loss without nostalgia and sadness without despair.
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Other reliquaries purported to hold strands from the Virgin Mary and even Jesus himself.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
For this special dual reliquary for Survival Kit, each piece includes details from 100 famous artists’ artworks of birds, presented along with their death dates.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Other caves became reliquaries for troves of Chinese cultural and artistic artifacts.
—Maria Papadouris, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2025
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Other reliquaries purported to hold strands from the Virgin Mary and even Jesus himself.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
For this special dual reliquary for Survival Kit, each piece includes details from 100 famous artists’ artworks of birds, presented along with their death dates.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Other caves became reliquaries for troves of Chinese cultural and artistic artifacts.
—Maria Papadouris, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliquary
shrine
Noun
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More recently, controversies like a Pokemon card game event that was originally planned to be held at a shrine to honor Japan’s war dead still triggered angry comments on Chinese social media, but no obvious broader repercussions.—
Chan Ho-Him,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Prosecutors also say Gray was aware his son was obsessed with mass school shootings and had a shrine in his bedroom dedicated to the Parkland, Florida, shooter.—
La'Tasha Givens,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Reliquary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliquary. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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