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“Historically Pakistan always wanted to be seen as primus inter pares”—first among equals—“in the Muslim world,” says Farzana Shaikh, an expert on Pakistan at the British think tank Chatham House, in a phone interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Having said that, the inter will always be preferred simply because it is much more flexible - it can be used in quite heavy rain right up to when it's almost dry.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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
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
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"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
Red Bull had taken the cue from Pierre Gasly's Alpha Tauri, who pitted for inters shortly after the start, but was for several laps stuck behind slower cars.
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
If no relative claimed her remains, Dawn was told, Nakesha would most likely be buried on Hart Island, where the city inters unclaimed bodies in mass graves.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
So Jones inters it in the darkest corner of the music-cabinet.
From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler
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
Her remains were instead interred in a remote cemetery, far from the family home.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The next morning, we detour north to the Ossuaire de Douaumont, where the remains of 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun are interred inside a giant stone memorial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
From Scotland to China, and from Iceland to West Africa, they have been interred under heavy stones, staked or nailed into graves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
The Chinchorro mummies were often repainted, indicating that they were not quickly interred but kept on display, perhaps for years.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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 is also the fact that the group advocating for interring the remains mostly consists of people of color while the park stewards are mostly white.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
“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
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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