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inter

[in-tur] / ɪnˈtɜr /


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When the prime minister addresses the cabinet, not far away in 10 Downing Street, he is primus inter pares, first among equals, sitting among his or her ministers.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2025

The museum has an ethical obligation to “exhaust all means” of finding people’s names and families before deciding to inter them, she says.

From Science Magazine Jan. 23, 2024

Shiv, as the funeral ends and the cemetery prepares to inter her father: “I’m intrigued to see how he gets out of this one.”

From New York Times May 21, 2023

Christopher Taktak, Pisces’ chief executive, said a solution that is mostly warm water takes about four hours to leave behind bone material that people will inter or take home.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2023

Then he said quietly, “Thought o’ jus’ letting Buckbeak go...tryin ter make him fly away...but how d’yeh explain ter a hippogriff it’s gotta go inter hidin’?

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

"But in that moment, why Max didn't stop for inters as well? He kept one lap longer than me but with a different tyre."

From BBC Jun. 1, 2023

"Now, if we look the race on TV again, we will stop for inters, yes, 100% yes. That was better," he said.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2023

Two laps after Perez pitted, Leclerc and Verstappen also stopped for inters, but such had been Perez's pace, Leclerc emerged from the pits behind the Red Bull, albeit still ahead of Verstappen.

From BBC May 29, 2022

According to its website, South-View Cemetery was founded after the end of the Civil War by former slaves and inters the bodies of more than 80,000 African Americans.

From Fox News Jul. 30, 2020

Above its mere amusing story the tale breathes an elegy on the many good things that are slain by age before death comes and decently inters the body.

From Henry James by West, Rebecca

The result was a single, wholly outmatched excavator coming to the mountain of masonry that had been the Al-Zaharnah home, where Mutaz and at least six others were still interred.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

They uncovered his skeleton in 2012 and the remains, with Richard III's famous curved spine, were later interred at Leicester Cathedral.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

In 1989, during the French revolutionary bicentennial celebrations, Condorcet was symbolically interred in the Panthéon, but Brissot, who advocated the export of the revolution to other nations by force, remains a less-celebrated figure.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Evidence suggests the site was prepared with care, and the victims were interred with personal belongings such as bronze jewellery and ceramic drinking vessels.

From Science Daily Mar. 9, 2026

“By the time Miss Wren rescued her, Pompey was so depressed she was nearly dead from it. She lingered on for only a few weeks after she arrived, then was interred here.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

The little boy was buried by his parents, who believed he would be reincarnated if they followed a ritual while interring the body.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2024

“There was way too much death for the system to handle,” recalls Amy Koplow, the executive director of the Hebrew Free Burial Association, which is interring some Jewish people who were at the temporary morgue.

From Seattle Times Jul. 5, 2021

There are enormous practical difficulties, often involving by-laws on the burial of human remains, when it comes to interring so many bodies.

From The Guardian Jul. 4, 2020

What MIT tried to do was suggest that the good Koch did for the institution’s endowment should live after him, while interring the evil with his bones.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2019

We wouldn’t be interring him in the Atlantic, but a pauper’s grave was just as permanent.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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