cenotaph
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Theirs are among 51 names on that pale grey granite cenotaph.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
In the square leading to the cenotaph, relatives and friends have written the names and ages of the disaster's 57 victims in red paint.
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
There is also a cenotaph to his memory on the banks of Leven-water, which he has consecrated in one of his best poems.—Ed.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
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