graveyard
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Much of the novel comes in the form of chatter among the cemetery’s ghostly residents, and the novel’s depiction of this graveyard cacophony reflects the chaos of the Civil War, raging all the while.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Weight loss, long a graveyard for drug-company ambitions, has emerged as one of the industry’s biggest and fastest-growing segments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
There was a door in the wall leading into the graveyard of the church, where John and Robin slipped quietly from one great tombstone to another.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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 silent ground of our national graveyards is sacred space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
He called for future submersible voyages to find more whale graveyards across the world.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Wall Street’s graveyards are filled with analysts who have insisted that they would.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Chicago’s newspapers reported ghoulish tales of doctors raiding graveyards.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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