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cemetery

[sem-i-ter-ee] / ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr i /


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Pusztavacs, which has 1,300 inhabitants, received state support to renovate its cemetery and church and got its first automatic cash machine last year as part of a government law to install machines in all villages.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

The cemetery, too, starts to overflow, and so bodies must be burned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

"He did not want to leave the town. He stayed, but is now in the cemetery," she told AFP, sobbing in the church hall.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Only one location, the urban cemetery of Ribe, showed a pattern connected to health.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

Their implicit message was that we were moving into what would become our own cemetery.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson