urn
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It’s backed by a mission-style silhouette tiled with an urn overflowing with foliage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Hoyte van Hoytema’s Imax-framed cinematography is assertive and present, rocking with the stormy waves and peering into the torch-lit darkness where the color palette is as starkly orange and black as an ancient Greek urn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
There are now only 10 matches before Australia defend the urn in the UK next summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was supposed to be a fairytale reclaiming of the urn at The Oval next summer.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
"I promise to empty that urn into the Ganges," she answers.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Near a white tent, about a hundred empty urns awaited ashes of the dead after cremation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
The firm also owns Batesville, a company that makes caskets and cremation urns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
He has added gold trim to the crown molding, smothered the walls with gold-framed artworks and gold-painted embellishments, placed inch-thick gold coasters on the desk, and lined up gold urns on the mantel.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Then, teetering on a step stool, I slipped the box onto the top shelf of the hall closet, right behind the Christmas wrap and the three urns containing the ashes of my dead dogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
When they pressed their faces to the dark windows, they saw that everything was gone—the tables and chairs and big copper urns, the chalkboard where the figures for the day’s trades had been posted.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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