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bury

[ber-ee] / ˈbɛr i /


VERB
plant in ground
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"We're waiting to recover the body so we can bury her," he told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

For her, it's all about nostalgically "wanting to remember simpler times"; being able to "bury into escapism".

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

After seeing JPMorgan leaders repeatedly attempt to bury the issues she raised, Lillie sought whistleblower protections and disclosed her concerns to the Justice Department, U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Finally, the Daily Mirror reports on families calling for a public inquiry into the funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Finn hoped she couldn’t tell that what he really wanted was for her to leave so he could bury his face in Mom’s clothes.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The road ahead is still uncertain as Iran buries the last of the first-generation founders of its 1979 revolution.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Dozens of crumbling buildings in Venezuela's decimated earthquake zone bear a spray-painted letter 'D' -- a sign that buries any hope of finding life beneath the rubble.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

A revamped Rose Garden that buries the past and statues that diminish what the people they depict stood for.

From Slate May 18, 2026

Mr. Yasunaga, however, forms his creations out of glaze and other ornaments, then buries the objects in sand or unrefined clay to fire them.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

Camille covers her mouth to avoid laughing while Emma buries her face in my hair.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

"That material is normally permanently buried -- we can only infer what's there. Here, a catastrophic event essentially turned these ancient moons inside out, and we get to see what was hidden inside."

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

To ensure they had good weather and non-cloudy skies, the couple carried out a tradition from folklore and buried a sausage.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Though not immediately visible to the naked eye, the ranch features a number of infrastructural updates, including automated irrigation and a fire suppression system that runs off an 18,000-gallon tank buried underground.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

But the question buried in the recent market jitters is: For how long?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Maybe he knew where all the gold was buried.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Someone else threw out the idea of burying the ring for Danielle to find.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

But a big part of him burying himself has so much to do with his brother, with his family.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

"We're not going to change the stigma that still exists by burying our heads in the sand and ignoring it anymore, but by getting it out there," he says.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Widow’s Bay’s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2026

“It’s a place for burying dead folk,” I say.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness




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