shrine
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More than $500 million was raised for the most recently built presidential shrine, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The doctor said the victims had gone to a local shrine for a picnic.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
This Safavid-era carpet created for an ancestral shrine in northwest Iran was gifted by J. Paul Getty and is prized for its ornately knotted design featuring lamps and central medallions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
But that changed after archaeometry expert Professor Ernst Pernicka concluded there was "no doubt whatsoever" the statue came from Bubon, where an imperial shrine housed bronze sculptures of Roman emperors.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Fishermen who are the descendants of the Heike dress in hemp and black headgear and proceed to the Akama shrine which contains the mausoleum of the drowned Emperor.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing shrine
World Religions
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Ancient Rome - Introductory
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