cenotaph
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A wooden cenotaph, initially intended to be temporary, was erected in Whitehall.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
The meeting took place late that month in Gwangju, by a gray stone cenotaph near the site of the minibus shooting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023
“A vast cenotaph of secession” was how the journalist and historian Tony Horwitz described Richmond in his 1998 book, “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War.”
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2022
In 1721, however, a cenotaph was erected in his honour in Westminster Abbey.
From Dickens' London by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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