interring
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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
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 was way too much death for the system to handle,” recalls Amy Koplow, the executive director of the Hebrew Free Burial Association, which is interring some Jewish people who were at the temporary morgue.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
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
