as in caskets
a boxlike container for holding a dead body
coffins are said to be the preferred sleeping places of vampires
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Recent Examples of coffins
Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Officials stood quietly as Swiss police pallbearers carried the coffins through a line of firefighters and soldiers to an Italian air force C-130 cargo plane.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Regulators balked when devices containing plutonium-238 started turning up in crematoriums and coffins.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2025
High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground.
—New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
Mourners help carry the coffins of Bondi Beach victims Boris and Sofia Gurman in Sydney on Friday.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2025
Hanging coffins have historically been ascribed to the ancient Bo ethnic group, believed to have disappeared after the Ming Dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644 and leaving questions about its history.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the coffins were handed over to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet force inside Gaza.
—Greg Wehner , Yael Halon, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
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They were given 45 minutes to get as many coffins into graves as possible.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffins
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The caskets, covered in Iranian flags, stood stacked at least three high.—
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Archeological studies have suggested that cliff-face and cave-based burials here may stretch back as far as 2,000 years, though these old caskets no longer exist on their elevated resting spots.—
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Between 2022 and 2024, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated a series of ancient tombs in the Jiali Village of Zi’an.—
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On the moors, cliffs, and hills there are wind farms; oil terminals; small farms, some of which have been there for many centuries; ruined medieval churches and hermitages; and prehistoric settlements, tombs, and monuments.—
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Are shower curtains a design staple of the past?—
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Stirring it with instant espresso powder noticeably decreases the effervescence, before the dense richness of the heavy cream all but buries it.—
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Clark rises, buries a deep, game-winning 3, and looks straight into the camera.—
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“Coffins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffins. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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