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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
At Hollywood Forever, and just about every other cemetery, you can inter a box or urn of ashes in the ground under a gravestone, where you’d lay the casket in a traditional burial.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
Grigori hadn’t kept these remnants to inter them with the dead.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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Given the race data and his pace, do you think that's a realistic claim had Ferrari put him on the inters at the start?
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
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 Rebecca West
Princess Ita was buried beside Princess Khenmet, while Princess Itaweret was interred alongside an unidentified woman who has tentatively been identified as Princess Sathathormeryt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
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
He is interred on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party buried there.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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It notes that mass burials and mass graves were "not a customary way of interring the dead in the Roman Empire", and were mostly used in extreme situations and mass casualty events.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Unlike interring the ashes, you can’t later decide to retrieve or move the ashes — they commingle with the soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
“That is because the decision succeeded in interring this sort of legislation and keeping it from spreading all around the country.”
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
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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