bury
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In October, authorities established a cemetery in the city of Deir al Balah to bury unidentified bodies recovered from around the enclave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
The other way—as chosen by this court—is to close those sessions and bury the audio for months.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Families in eastern Congo traditionally wash and bury their dead themselves, but the corpses of Ebola victims are highly infectious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the measures, which also included sweeping changes to land use, aimed to "preserve" socialism rather than bury it.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
I want to bury my head in my notebook.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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
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
The script buries its live-wire ideas harmlessly underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
She groans and buries her face in her arms, but she’s smiling.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
Shortly after Max’s trial ended, Anna and Tom got married, Anna got sober, and both buried a few secrets.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
The U.S. last year inflicted severe damage on the so-called Fordow site, also buried in a mountain, by dropping its most powerful bombs through ventilation shafts that went straight down to uranium enrichment facilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fewer organisms grew, less organic carbon sank to the seafloor, and less carbon became buried in sediments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
No one forced him to keep all of this buried and push ahead, assuming that his charisma could pull him through.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
I drew the Bible over my head along with the dress, rolled them together and buried the bundle at the bottom of the clothing pile.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Someone else threw out the idea of burying the ring for Danielle to find.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Meanwhile Venezuelans have begun burying the dead who have been found so far.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Widow’s Bay’s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
From burying power lines to building out biofuel plants and other renewable energy projects, the company has plenty of business tied to non-tech infrastructure as well.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
“Strange that they are burying him in the sea,” another said.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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