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[in-tur] / ɪnˈtɜr /


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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

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

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

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

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 Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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

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

She called the Osage chief, and Anna’s skull was retrieved and, at a quiet ceremony, interred with her other remains.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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 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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