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
She said the "tenor" of the posts was to "encourage members of the public to attend a preorganised protest", and by 18:00 BST about 200 people had gathered around the cenotaph in Hartlepool town centre.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2024
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
I believe that the fashion had been set by the founder of the united monarchy himself, and that besides the tomb of Menes at Negada there was also a cenotaph of the king at Abydos.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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