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coffin

[kaw-fin, kof-in] / ˈkɔ fɪn, ˈkɒf ɪn /


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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

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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