sacred
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Writer Douglas Kearney illuminates it strikingly in the curatorial statement etched into a back wall in “sister dreamer”: “… it’s the sacred phenomenon of luxe space that remembers without memorializing, celebrates without eulogizing. An anti-tomb.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
"These two operations reflect our nation's most sacred obligation to our military service members," Caine said.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
“Dodger Stadium might be a sacred place,” says Joe Price, emeritus professor of religion at Whittier College, “depending on how much you have to pay for parking.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The Vatican itself has not spoken on the matter, but in 2016 did set out its position to recommend that the bodies of the deceased are buried in cemeteries or other sacred places.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Mars’s sacred animal was the wild boar, not the serpent.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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