graveyard
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Everything Must Go at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery was inspired by "things that are no longer with us", he said, describing his first major solo art exhibition as "a neon graveyard, full of colour".
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
A struggle also remains for Jefferson-Hemings descendants to gain the right to be buried in the Jefferson graveyard.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
They were there when the devastating Santa Barbara oil spill blackened beaches, turned the shoreline into a wildlife graveyard, and galvanized grassroots defense of the coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Attempting to beat existing battery giants has doomed many a company to the graveyard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
We watch, frozen in fear, as the figure slips through the gap in the brick wall that leads to the old part of the graveyard.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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Until now, however, scientists have lacked a reliable way to determine how the remains of extinct megafauna and other animals accumulated, survived, and changed inside these submerged graveyards.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The subtropical southern Japanese region boasts some of the world's most biodiverse hubs of normally multicoloured coral, but a 2024 marine heatwave created "graveyards" of ghostly pale or sickly brown organisms.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Wall Street’s graveyards are filled with analysts who have insisted that they would.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
So many men died, many of them "navvies" who moved between major construction projects, they had to make local graveyards bigger.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
The most seriously ill were taken by cart to Bush Hill; the dead were placed in coffins and hauled to the graveyards.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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