cenotaph
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The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
Yvonne Meredith and Gary Brooks are cousins whose great-grandfather, Levi Coleman, is named on the cenotaph.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
The meeting took place late that month in Gwangju, by a gray stone cenotaph near the site of the minibus shooting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023
“A vast cenotaph of secession” was how the journalist and historian Tony Horwitz described Richmond in his 1998 book, “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War.”
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2022
In the church of Westerham, the place of Wolfe's birth, as well as in Westminster Abbey, is a cenotaph.
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