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mausoleum

[maw-suh-lee-uhm, -zuh-] / ˌmɔ səˈli əm, -zə- /


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The KMT leader also travelled to the eastern city of Nanjing, where she visited the mausoleum of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, one of the few Chinese historical figures revered in both Beijing and Taipei.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Knight also entered a mausoleum behind the altar and opened up a box containing ashes, Fraser said.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

A footballing mausoleum of memories and moments, both awe-inspiring and harrowing.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, just hours after his grave was vandalised.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

The inmates took in their grim destination: Leavenworth was a 366,000-square-foot fortress, which, as a prisoner once described, rose out of the surrounding cornfields like a “giant mausoleum adrift in a great sea of nothingness.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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