cenotaph

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The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

The piece - a kneeling soldier among poppies - stands as a backdrop to the cenotaph in Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023

Choi kneels before the cenotaph and hangs his head.

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 the choir is a cenotaph in white marble to Pius VI., who was exiled in Valence, and who died here in 1799.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)