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cenotaphs

noun

plural of cenotaph

as in memorials

a special structure or statue that is built to remind people of a dead person who is buried somewhere else

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Given its themes of comfort, it is often read or performed at funerals and memorials and has been set to music and referenced in many hymns.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
As the sun rises in Nashville, fan tributes and memorials continue to grow in the area for the late Dolly Parton.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of memorials

Noun

Many of Washington’s monuments, buildings and sites have been carefully planned over decades to reflect significant moments in the nation’s history and to evoke symbolism through sightlines that connect them to other sites.

— Matthew Daly, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Public monuments condemning slavery have been removed, and Confederate names have been restored to Army bases.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of monuments

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Getting that apparently trivial behavior working involved Home Assistant, MQTT, custom software, and more Claude, Codex and ChatGPT tokens than one should reasonably associate with boiling pasta.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2026
Ting estimates that the company uses between 500 million and 1 billion tokens to train its models, compared to the trillions used for English-language models, and at a cost of roughly $250,000.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

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