bury
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Tectonic movements can break them apart, erosion can remove exposed rocks, and sedimentation can bury what remains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
The effect is especially disconcerting as this father and daughter navigate glad-handers and former Nazi collaborators in West Germany who are anxious to bury the past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
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
I want to bury my head in my notebook.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
At every turn, Schoenbrun buries the movie alive, heaping layer upon layer of meta subtext onto it.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Instead, Microsoft buries Azure inside a segment called “Intelligent Cloud” that includes legacy software, forcing investors to guess where the legacy products end and the real cloud growth begins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Father steers the plow; Caesar, by hand, buries the seeds.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"The exposure-burial history that emerges from the model implies recycling of sediments previously deposited and buried in the rift valley... and then redeposited along the 'Ubeidiya paleo lake shoreline."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
And whether the get-out clause is buried on page 118 in the hope that no one will actually read that far.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
She’s engaging in a piece of phantasmagoric performance art with two raging megalomaniacs, suspecting humanity buried beneath their easygoing subterfuge.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
The ninth person, Mohammed al-Qasous, will be buried on Monday, his family said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
I think of that list of summer goals Celia and Avery made, buried under all the school stuff on my desk.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Because the decomposition of organic matter can consume oxygen, burying more carbon helped favor the continued buildup of oxygen in the atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
And the person they're burying is the disillusioned girl from Stop The Wedding.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“We’re challenging the buttoned-up paradigm of burying the dead. We’re keeping our dead alive through art, through talking about them always.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Why does tennis keep burying its best product?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Neither do I,” wept Barbara, burying her face in her pillow.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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