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burial

[ber-ee-uhl] / ˈbɛr i əl /


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A football player with the Palestinian national youth team, he was carried back through the village streets for burial.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Carrying out your friend’s prepaid burial wishes does not mean you’ve accepted the role of executor.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

Ghassan Daghlas, the governor of the Nablus region, which includes Tell, attended a funerary prayer at the Nabuls hospital where the bodies lay before the burial, his office said.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

He’s now buried right next to a baby girl who died at 4 months and had, until his burial, lain in the cemetery alone without anyone by her side.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2026

How had he let the burial get that far?

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

In addition to preventing lawful and decent burials, Bush, 48, previously pleaded guilty to 35 counts of fraud by false representation and another of fraudulently running a business, relating to the sale of funeral plans.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Earlier interpretations suggested that most of the victims were female, but the genetic evidence shows that nine out of ten burials examined there were male.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

"We started here on July 25th, the very next day, to do all the work...so that all those people could have dignified burials."

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

Red Cross volunteers are carrying out safe burials under police protection to stop the virus spreading.

From BBC May 25, 2026

It is a testament to our confraternity, however, that a curious ground of agreement was eventually reached: the necessity of concealing all mourning at the smallpox burials, and displaying only dancing and festival triumph.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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