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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
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
Grigori hadn’t kept these remnants to inter them with the dead.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
"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
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
While these thus in and out had circled Rome, Look, what the lightning blasted, Arruns takes, And it inters with murmurs dolorous, And calls the place Bidental.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
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
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
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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
After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at a United Nations military cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 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
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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