bury
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The family said they had decided to bury Awuche in Tamale instead of Gambaga as the village would have been overwhelmed with mourners.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
He didn’t recognize what those traumatic experiences he’d tried to bury did to him, not until he started to talk about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
At the time of the debacle, Wildcat was well into a project to bury overhead lines on two-lane Ocean Boulevard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Together, these processes erase or bury many ancient impact craters.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 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
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
She buries some of her most colorful observations in the endnotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Yet he buries his ledes so deep into the script that he leaves himself only a couple minutes to try to tie things up at the end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
I try again to sit up, but pain buries itself deep in my bones.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
That buried sea has made Jupiter's icy moon one of the most promising places in the solar system to investigate whether conditions suitable for life might exist beyond Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
He said, due to the former presence of greenhouses on the land, which then were destroyed and buried under a layer of top soil, it was reverted to agricultural designation.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
A struggle also remains for Jefferson-Hemings descendants to gain the right to be buried in the Jefferson graveyard.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Los Angeles is one of many cities across the nation fighting an epic battle to solve a multibillion-dollar problem buried underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mr. Johnson wrapped his arms around Jimbo and buried his face in his fur.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
After months of burying the accusations, and more than two years of dithering, the International Criminal Court at last fired its prosecutor, Karim Khan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
As international rescue teams packed up and ended attempts to find survivors, attention shifted to mourning those lost and burying the remains that families have recovered from the ruins.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Meanwhile Venezuelans have begun burying the dead who have been found so far.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
Not wanting to test the idea, she tried burying her face in her mother’s side, but she couldn’t fit under her stiff arm.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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