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Recent Examples of urn
By the urn, Andula said, is a picture of their son that someone painted with angel wings behind him.
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Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 12 Jan. 2026
They have been beaten after only 11 days of cricket this time round, which is the joint quickest the urn has ever been lost.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
An urn elicits feedback in seconds; a book, maybe never.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
Buffett’s daughter, Savannah, supported the idea and arranged the secret urn hand-off with McAnally.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
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Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 12 Jan. 2026
They have been beaten after only 11 days of cricket this time round, which is the joint quickest the urn has ever been lost.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
An urn elicits feedback in seconds; a book, maybe never.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
Buffett’s daughter, Savannah, supported the idea and arranged the secret urn hand-off with McAnally.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urn
Noun
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On Friday, September 5, the coffin was moved to Kensington Palace; the following morning, she was buried at Althorp.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
6 Feb. 2026
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Mourners carried his coffin in the town of Bani Walid, 91 miles southeast of the capital, Tripoli, as well as large photographs of both Seif al-Islam, who was known mostly by his first name, and his father.—
Yousef Murad,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The last piece depicts the same character in a casket and the sound that Marc developed is the same story, but with sounds.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026
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Oklahoma doesn't regulate casket design or casket manufacturing.—
Dale Denwalt,
Oklahoman,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Snook took The Picture of Dorian Gray to Broadway, and although no one’s saying so out loud, Dracula is likely going to rest in their sarcophagus and be transported to New York as well.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
24 Dec. 2025
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In a way, the old barrel filling house and the distillery’s cooperage function as an eerie sarcophagus for the bourbon industry’s downfall in the 1980s.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Dec. 2025
Noun
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While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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Inside the 16th-century basilica, his casket won't be put on an elevated bier—as was the case with past popes—but will just be placed on the main alta, simply facing the pews.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Even so, someone fired gunshots into the tomb, shattering part of the structure.—
Daniel Wilkerson,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
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Devotees often visit their tombs to seek a miraculous intervention.—
Vanessa Corcoran,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Urn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urn. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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