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cemetery

[sem-i-ter-ee] / ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr i /


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Adam Rigg’s cemetery set—trees, graves, a crypt—is enhanced by the purples and greens of lighting co-designers Yi Zhao and Stacey Derosier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

To judge from the lines of young, very devoted fans snaking around the cemetery, Geese has already built the requisite subculture to thrive longer-term.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

These include a fragment from Byron—only a few scribbled pages, set in a Turkish cemetery, about the mysterious Augustus Darvell—and a long story called “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori, Byron’s former doctor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

On Thursday, the prince spoke to villagers Rod and Helen Wyatt at their garden gate and was told how the water almost topped gravestones in a cemetery opposite during a flood.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

I pulled him by the collar toward the cemetery and shelter.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Doan Van Cong, 68, and his family spent years touring cemeteries and talking to witnesses to discover what happened to his uncle, who died in 1950, when he was in his early 20s.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

At the two largest cemeteries, researchers found an unusually large number of children and young teenagers among those who had died.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Watch the video above for an inside look at how front-line cash is transforming Ulan-Ude’s impoverished economy—even as cemeteries and war memorials continue to expand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Turrell spoke movingly of the close friends he lost during the campaign, some of whom he buried in the field, and who are now buried in Commonwealth war cemeteries on the continent.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

With her soft Appalachian accent, Justice leaves no doubt that she is a local girl, steeped in the culture of the old family cemeteries that dot the mountains here in East Kentucky.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times


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