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bury

[ber-ee] / ˈbɛr i /


VERB
plant in ground
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“In Ituri, people want to bury their own family members.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Sudden movements "may also bury our responders", she said, explaining why this phase of the operation had to be done mostly manually.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

Salah knows the implications of what he has said, about how Liverpool must return to being a "heavy metal attacking team" and he is trying to bury Slot.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

But I can choose to recognize that some performers, artistic works and brands are simply too big to fail or bury, so they become some version of a beached grey whale’s corpse.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

All of the wrongness thunders and falls and threatens to bury her alive.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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