urn
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Pringles to award the biggest fan a can-shaped urn.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Pringles’ Halloween sweepstake promises one winner a metal urn shaped like the brand’s cylindrical cans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Officers explained to Ness that they had checked records at the crematorium and found Bush collected the baby's ashes on 13 May - two days after he had presented Ness and Ellerby with the urn.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
They were contained in a white china urn with a teddy bear embossed on it, Ness recalled.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
He glances over his shoulder at where that urn is sitting on the backseat.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
Near a white tent, about a hundred empty urns awaited ashes of the dead after cremation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 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
There is also what appears to be a grey building that sits in the middle of the graveyard - likely to be a columbarium which houses funeral urns, says Chung.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Other wall-mounted falcon sculptures in wood, bronze and glass suggest sconces, trophies and Greco-Roman urns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Just before the train pulled out, I saw several urns being loaded onto the baggage compartment of the train.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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