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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
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
“Listen, I’m glad we’ve run inter yeh, Ronan, ’cause there’s a unicorn bin hurt — you seen anythin’?”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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"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
I had a good run on inters and I've been happier with the car than in the past.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2013
So Jones inters it in the darkest corner of the music-cabinet.
From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler
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
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
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
Theevil that mendoo lives after them, Thegoodisoft interred with their bones;...”
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
“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
The videos emerged as the coronavirus outbreak ravaged New York, and after they circulated, officials confirmed what viewers suspected: The city had begun interring unclaimed bodies of Covid-19 victims in the potter’s field.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 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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Romeo and Juliet
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