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graveyard

[grayv-yahrd] / ˈgreɪvˌjɑrd /


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Because in the graveyard of closed “it” L.A. restaurants, the Cheesecake Factory is still going strong.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

"There was no way I could put Ozzy in a public graveyard," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

This city of 350,000 resembles an oil-industry graveyard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But that kind of optimism can quickly start to sound more like whistling past the graveyard.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Just as I’m about to cross the street, I hear a crunching sound—someone walking down the little gravel path that leads from the graveyard to the gates.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

Mudgett foresaw no difficulty in acquiring the cadavers, although in fact a national shortage of corpses for medical education had by then driven doctors to raid graveyards for the freshly dead.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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