tombstone
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Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
"With just 22 million rupees, we've restored 92 buildings, eight or nine clocks, and some 1,300 tombstone plaques."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
The bust, sculpted by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin, was placed on Morrison’s tombstone in 1981 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Doors frontman’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
But then I imagined that LOL on her tombstone again and suddenly felt too silly to say anything else.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
Bimbo is maneuvered into a graveyard whose tombstones sway and sing, and whose ground opens up to reveal teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Soldiers who demonstrated "extraordinary valour" are honoured with outdoor graves and tombstones, while others are commemorated in urns inside the columbarium.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Nearby, a well-maintained veterans cemetery can be seen, its tombstones decorated with wreaths and flowers.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
The art installation consists of over 100 tombstones, each with identical black fists and names I remember from 2020.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
Dozens of tombstones surrounded by dense shrubs and weeds.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
