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cemetery

[sem-i-ter-ee] / ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr i /


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There was an army camp in Chemmani close to the cemetery as well.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The vast Theban necropolis, comprising an area of around 10km², was Egypt’s main royal and elite cemetery for half a millennium, from ca.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

We have rituals there—paying respects to aging aunts and uncles, attending the home church, visiting Steve’s mom and little sister in the cemetery, buying pie at the Amish store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

The 84-year-old will be buried at a Belgrade cemetery on Monday, in a ceremony expected to draw thousands of mourners despite international condemnation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

The cemetery was up a slope to my left, and Purgatory Hill plunged down to the oak grove on my right.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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

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

A long-running dispute between cemeteries and bike-lane and safe streets advocates in the San Fernando Valley has escalated to become a campaign issue in the Los Angeles mayor’s race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

While most people look to the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution to understand America, I look to its cemeteries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Fortified towns emerged in the third millennium B.C., with cemeteries whose great variation between unadorned and luxuriously furnished graves bespeaks emerging class differences.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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