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bury

[ber-ee] / ˈbɛr i /


VERB
plant in ground
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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

I also thought about how selfish I was being, but I knew that if it never happened, I would bury my dream and work hard at whatever job necessary to support my family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

"Let us grieve and bury my son King Oyo."

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Then I pull out The World at the End of the Tunnel and bury my face in it.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

At every turn, Schoenbrun buries the movie alive, heaping layer upon layer of meta subtext onto it.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The commission is a German non-profit organisation that searches, recovers and buries the war dead on behalf of the German government.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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

Tempering democratic rhetoric with aristocratic restraint, he rises above the divisions of debate to deliver the funeral oration when Athens buries its dead sons in the war’s first winter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

She lowers herself onto the couch, buries her face in her hands.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Back at home, he realised that buried within the bundle were "two papers on two classified subjects, and they were both top secret".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Researchers discovered a second, larger dog skull, along with the naturally mummified skeleton of a male dog buried in a shallow pit.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Sosnoff is a bit more measured in his final assessment, quoting a participant as saying, “We haven’t buried the hatchet yet, but it’s been put away in the closet,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some constraints may be buried in the fine print, like services that require prior authorizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

He wandered over to his sandbox, sat down on the triangular corner seat, and reached for a big spoon that was partly buried in the sand and dirt.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

And the person they're burying is the disillusioned girl from Stop The Wedding.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The year after that, heavy rains pummeled the burn scar, burying buildings and vehicles under mud and debris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

These surge for tens of kilometers, splintering trees, igniting forests and burying the remnants beneath hot ash and pumice.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Why does tennis keep burying its best product?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

I didn’t wonder why nobody in my family even questioned burying him the way he said to.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns


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