graveyard
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The endeavor had become a graveyard for research: Despite more than a thousand attempts by other researchers to produce a therapeutic vaccine for cancer, almost none had succeeded in a meaningful clinical trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
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
Attempting to beat existing battery giants has doomed many a company to the graveyard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
All at once the big monkey stopped squalling and the bottoms got as still as a graveyard.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
They drive until it grows dark, without destination in mind, past hidden ponds and graveyards, culs-de-sac and dead ends.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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