urn
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A famous expression of this proposition is the finale of John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2018
Fannie McClendon is the 97-year-old owner of The Glass Urn, the store next door to Farr’s location.
From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2017
Urn thefts made felony to deter crime without ‘closure’
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2016
Their love unspools as a series of missed opportunities and failed hopes; deprived of a happily-ever-after, like the figures on Keats’ Grecian Urn, they remain tantalizingly fixed in mutual pursuit.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2015
Remember the way people would look at you blankly and say, "Urn, okaaay," after you finished talking?
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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