interment
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When he learned of Lanchester's interment, during the course of his regular research into historic death certificates, he decided she would be his next memorial project.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
His funeral ceremony at the National Cathedral will be held the following day — which President Biden has decreed a national day of mourning — followed by a private interment in his Georgia hometown, Plains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025
“This moment,” said the Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson, a local pastor involved in planning the commemoration and interment of the 19, “has not come without some pain, discomfort and tension.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Ordinarily at the cemetery the lid of a coffin was lifted a final time before interment, allowing loved ones to say good-bye, but the condition of Anna’s body made that impossible.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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So it said it was "with regret" that historic areas of the gardens could no longer accommodate further interments alongside previous remains.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
The statement called for demarcated and documented individual graves, saying hasty interments could lead to mental anguish for families as well as social and legal problems.
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023
Lime, he said, was seldom applied during Roman-era interments.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
Yates informed her that a law allowing the Army and the Department of Veterans Affairs to reconsider interments applied only to those occurring after its enactment in 2013.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
We have no evidence that they buried their dead—the interments, such as those of Aurignac, Les Eyzies and Mentone, most probably belonging to a later age.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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