graveyard
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But that kind of optimism can quickly start to sound more like whistling past the graveyard.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
That’s part of the reason why the risk-on sentiment is beginning to spread to cryptocurrencies — an asset class known for its volatility — which has helped bitcoin’s comeback from the graveyard, Hackett said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Everything Must Go at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery was inspired by "things that are no longer with us", he said, describing his first major solo art exhibition as "a neon graveyard, full of colour".
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
From there it is quite simple to get into the graveyard of the church, thence into the church itself, and into the tower.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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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
Villages filled with children and old people, midday meals to break up the workday, churches, graveyards, farmers selling crops, town halls with birth records, death notices.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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