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cemetery

[sem-i-ter-ee] / ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr i /


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On social media, commentators have pointed out the cost of cemetery plots and queried how the new law will be regulated.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Jospin was to be buried at the Montparnasse cemetery in the south of Paris.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

The cemetery, too, starts to overflow, and so bodies must be burned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Next, the scientists created detailed maps of each cemetery.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

An unpretentious Lutheran church—a chapel, really—that looks like a set for an Ingmar Bergman drama and can seat only about fifty parishioners, guards the site of the cemetery.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady