bury
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Realizing in real-time that they had walked straight into a trap, the senator’s team tried to bury the evidence and move on before anyone noticed.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Though her urn remains in the place she loved most, Landers hopes, someday, to bury her ashes in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her youngest son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The driverless tractor with spiked steel wheels will run over a programmed course, flattening newly spread trash to create space to bury more garbage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
She had wanted to bury her mother in their home village, but for now that is impossible, so she has been cremated and her ashes sit in Lyubov's apartment in Belgorod, about 100 miles away.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The Germans found and searched their bodies, then left the dead aviators for local villagers to bury.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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At every turn, Schoenbrun buries the movie alive, heaping layer upon layer of meta subtext onto it.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
She padlocks the gate when she returns and buries witchy talismans around the property to ward off intruders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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His release brought a flood of emotions he had kept buried in prison.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
This was obviously a dangerous situation as the car was buried in the barrier.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
I don’t disagree with any of that, but the most important aspect of Bequelin and Wang’s analysis gets a little buried beneath a forest of impeccably organized policy details.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Matson, spooked by Robinson’s arrest, said he had buried the safe in a wooded area around 30 minutes outside of State College, in a hiding place he marked on Apple Maps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
I had my head buried in my parka hood and couldn’t even see the front end of the team.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Why does tennis keep burying its best product?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nepal was burying on Monday some of the hundreds of bodies retrieved after a deadly, tsunami-like flood crashed through the Himalayan region, sweeping away villages and leaving thousands still missing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Enormous quantities of material would have been thrown outward during the collision and redistributed across Deimos, burying many older surface features.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
A former Monsanto worker who spent three years helping seal toxic waste underground said staff had "cheap" protective equipment and were not told what they were burying.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
I got up and ran to my room, burying myself under my covers while I sobbed.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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