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[in-tur] / ɪnˈtɜr /


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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

On Monday afternoon, half a dozen gravediggers took a break in the shade, waiting for the latest coffin to inter at the cemetery, called Lychakiv.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

Enter inter they hearts ’n’ breathe compassion on they sperits!

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Mr. Seelig runs the All Souls Remembrance Program, which inters cremated remains in a cemetery for anyone of any faith, free of charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

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 Rebecca West

Only 20% to 40% of cremated remains are buried or interred at a cemetery, according to the Cremation Association of North America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

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

The government interred Japanese, German, and other diplomats from enemy countries at the Greenbrier, of all places—both to keep the diplomats from leaving the country and to make sure that they were treated well.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The little boy was buried by his parents, who believed he would be reincarnated if they followed a ritual while interring the body.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024

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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