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ashes

NOUN
powder remains after a fire
Synonyms




ash(es)


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Glatt, who wears a bracelet containing some of Dena’s ashes “so she’ll always be with me,” unsurprisingly was emotional after the Santa Anita Derby last month.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026

He’s come this far to sprinkle his folks’ cremated ashes at the only place he can picture them happy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Then too, she has her mother’s ashes in storage, next to a vintage Pee-wee Herman doll in its original packaging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Humberside Police removed 35 bodies and the ashes of 167 people from Legacy's parlour in Hessle Road following a "concern for care of the deceased" in March 2024.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

The Osage historian Louis F. Burns observed that after “only shreds and tatters remained” of his people, they had risen “from the ashes of their past.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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