inter
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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
There are no signs of violence, and the grave was probably opened multiple times over the course of several decades to inter new bodies.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 19, 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
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
And so, tomorrow night, we shall hold the first of these grim fêtes to inter the dead and trick the gods.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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His engineers turned down the request, and the McLarens stuck with the inters, Norris using their extra warmth and poor starts from both Mercedes to take the lead.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
"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
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
A lot of the people interred there are from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and now it’s becoming a place where filmmakers and musicians and artists are considering for their final resting place.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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
Valentino will be cremated, with his ashes interred at Rome's Flaminio Cemetery.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
In burials discovered from sixth-century Britain, human remains have been found to have been interred in striking, unusual ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Where his pectoral muscles should be, he has a breast weighed down with the words of human beings: by words interred, free-as-a-bird absurd, unheard!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
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
“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
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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