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urn

[urn] / ɜrn /
NOUN
vessel
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Though her urn remains in the place she loved most, Landers hopes, someday, to bury her ashes in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her youngest son.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Nearby, children tried to toss coins into a large metal urn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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

So the trumpet case was hidden inside a huge urn and Jamie’s book bag was neatly tucked behind a drape that was behind a statue from the Middle Ages.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

Lavender sprayed from two big urns on either side of Aunt Florentine’s headstone.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles




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