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Recent Examples of catacombs
His only book, Portraits in Life and Death (1976), juxtaposed photos of people in his circle and with images of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
For a darker experience in the City of Light, venture beneath Paris and explore its hundreds of miles of catacombs.
—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catacombs
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The latest Lara Croft actress, Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner, has revealed that reading a script for the new live-action Tomb Raider series is as difficult as, uh, raiding a tomb!—
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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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Most of them go deep into the memory vault of childhood, recalling fishing trips and family gatherings.—
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After five years, the vault of positive affirmations that had introduced Fine Line reverted to a blank screen.—
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Meanwhile, at Mount Moriah, the graves Gerlach allegedly prayed on are old, ornate mausoleums and large crypt-like vaults, many from the 1800s.—
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Following another private ceremony for Brown’s family, his body was moved to his daughter Deanna’s Beech Island home, where it was later stored in an above-ground crypt.—
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“Catacombs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catacombs. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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