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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
Some of these people are buried in a cemetery on the property.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
They’ve been found with bog bodies and Incan human sacrifices on top of South American volcanoes, as well as in medieval cemeteries, in Egyptian necropolises and in mass graves from the Spanish Civil War.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
The painting was found in a London cemetery two days after her arrest for the Beit heist.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
For days after the funeral of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, thousands of people continued to line up outside the cemetery in southern Moscow waiting to lay flowers at his grave.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
Reyna Hernandez, 54, was last seen on Feb. 26 in Renton, Wash. before being found dead in a cemetery in Mexicali, Mexico, on March 8, authorities said Tuesday.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
Hernandez, 54, was found dead after the Renton police were alerted to a Mexicali news article Friday about an unidentified body at a cemetery on the Tijuana Highway.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2024
Experts believe the skeletons are remains of people who were buried in the cemetery of the Abbey of the Holy Cross, also known as Woodburn.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
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“Cemetery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cemetery. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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cemetery
noun
Middle English cimitery "cemetery," from early French cimiterie (same meaning), from Latin coemeterium "cemetery," from Greek koimētērion "sleeping chamber, burial place," from koiman "to put to sleep"
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