as in memorial
a special structure or statue that is built to remind people of a dead person who is buried somewhere else
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Recent Examples of cenotaph
Middlesbrough also saw around 300 people gathering at the town’s cenotaph.
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Armani Syed/london, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town’s cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans, and pots at officers.
—Pan Pylas, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2024
The building features a number of elaborate interior details, including crypts and tombs, cenotaphs, iwans, chhatris, and minarets, as well as sarcophagus elements.
—Kathleen Felton, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
This epigram is quoted by Herodotus as the second of three displayed at the site of Thermopylae on monuments or cenotaphs.
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
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Armani Syed/london, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town’s cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans, and pots at officers.
—Pan Pylas, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2024
The building features a number of elaborate interior details, including crypts and tombs, cenotaphs, iwans, chhatris, and minarets, as well as sarcophagus elements.
—Kathleen Felton, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
This epigram is quoted by Herodotus as the second of three displayed at the site of Thermopylae on monuments or cenotaphs.
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cenotaph
Noun
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The memorial is expected to be unveiled in 2026, marking what would have been the late Queen’s centenary.—
Rosa Rahimi,
CNN Money,
9 May 2025
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On May 7, the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee and the Cabinet Office revealed the five potential design concepts for the Queen Elizabeth II national memorial via a public online exhibition.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
7 May 2025
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President Trump’s 2026 budget proposal recommends cutting more than $1.2 billion from the NPS, which manages 433 areas including national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, comprising 85 million acres of federal land in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Jiggly Caliente and Sam Nordquist are among this year’s all-trans class of inductees to the National LGBTQ+ Wall of Honor, a monument inside New York City’s Stonewall Inn.—
James Factora,
Them.,
7 May 2025
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“Cenotaph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cenotaph. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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