as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town
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Like Davis-Monthan, these boneyards aren't accessible to the public.
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Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
Retired planes are sent to aircraft boneyards, also called aircraft graveyards.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
The last Boeing 747 commercial passenger jet to be delivered was in July 2017 -- a jumbo for Korean Air Lines -- and in January 2018 US passenger operations ended when Delta Air Lines Flight 9771 touched down in a jetliner boneyard in Marana, Arizona.
—Howard Slutsken, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
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Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
Retired planes are sent to aircraft boneyards, also called aircraft graveyards.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
The last Boeing 747 commercial passenger jet to be delivered was in July 2017 -- a jumbo for Korean Air Lines -- and in January 2018 US passenger operations ended when Delta Air Lines Flight 9771 touched down in a jetliner boneyard in Marana, Arizona.
—Howard Slutsken, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boneyard
Noun
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Flag placement event at national cemetery Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery hosts a flag placement event at 8 a.m. May 24 at the cemetery, 1700 Cabrillo Memorial Drive, and volunteers are needed to place flags on gravesites.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Social media sleuths also discovered Walters had poached at least two other deer from the cemetery.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
15 May 2025
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At the beginning of the century, archaeologists in a town just outside Paris discovered an ancient graveyard.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2025
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The common trap of entrepreneurial distraction The business graveyard is filled with brilliant ideas that never reached their potential because their creators abandoned them too quickly.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Boneyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boneyard. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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