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graveyard

noun as in burial area

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But however Skynet-1A then got shifted to its present position, it was ultimately allowed to die in an awkward place when really it should have been put in an "orbital graveyard".

From BBC

Burr Oak is a poorer graveyard than both of those, and lacks the trees, plants, and waterways that can be found in the whiter and wealthier cemeteries.

From Slate

I also hadn’t done my hearing any favors by working the graveyard shift at a nightclub during college—eight uninterrupted hours at a stretch of noise exposure that vastly exceeded safe levels.

From Slate

So exactly how much of a bowlers' graveyard was the pitch for the first Test?

From BBC

A poem carved on the stone includes the line, "For tyger fierce took life away"; a detail which has regularly drawn curious onlookers to the graveyard.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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