coffin
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A short distance from the nursery, workers in white protective suits loaded a child-sized coffin into the back of a pickup truck.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
No one sleeps in a coffin and everyone seems to go out during the day for work or school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Unfortunately, it fell to Amol Rajan to become the Paloma Faith of this series - being taken away in a coffin in episode two before even having the chance to take part in a banishment.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Carried aloft by druids in a closed coffin, the show's host arrived in a church, to greet 21 anxious-looking celebrities.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
At the burial he sprinkled earth on the coffin, and I felt as though he were leaving a part of his own life force in the grave.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Some of the "hanging coffins" can still be seen on nearby Sagada cliffs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Wolfe also acquired more than 100 Ghanaian fantasy coffins — figurative sculptures, some stretching 10 to 12 feet long, also known as Fantastic Afterlife Vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Investors went ga-ga over industrial agglomerations for tin, oil, electric utilities, flour, furniture, copper, pottery, leather, borax, oatmeal, even coffins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Inside, I do a double-take: the men working inside are hammering together wooden coffins.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
There Clarkson had to push his way through a crowd of vendors selling coffins and patent medicine cures.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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