urn
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It’s backed by a mission-style silhouette tiled with an urn overflowing with foliage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Hoyte van Hoytema’s Imax-framed cinematography is assertive and present, rocking with the stormy waves and peering into the torch-lit darkness where the color palette is as starkly orange and black as an ancient Greek urn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The family lost everything including baby photos, Missi’s grandmother’s art and the stone urn that contained her late father’s ashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
His destiny seemed to be ending his career at this ground next year, finally with his hands on the urn as an Ashes-winning captain.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
After they removed the coffin to the street, the santeros broke a clay urn behind Felicia’s old De Soto, the funeral car, and sprinkled it with cold water to refresh her for the final journey.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Near a white tent, about a hundred empty urns awaited ashes of the dead after cremation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
He has added gold trim to the crown molding, smothered the walls with gold-framed artworks and gold-painted embellishments, placed inch-thick gold coasters on the desk, and lined up gold urns on the mantel.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Other wall-mounted falcon sculptures in wood, bronze and glass suggest sconces, trophies and Greco-Roman urns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
In May 2024 police searched A Milne's office in Springburn, Glasgow, and recovered 19 containers with ashes, just days after eight urns were handed over to Argyll and Bute Council.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
Lavender sprayed from two big urns on either side of Aunt Florentine’s headstone.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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