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interment

noun as in burial

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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.

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Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.

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.

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Michele Castañeda-Martinez’s job as a division administrator for the county’s Department of Public Health includes ensuring a proper cremation and interment of the ashes of people who die such lonesome deaths.

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“After 200 years of being on display and subject to scientific testing, these individuals deserve an interment with all the dignity and respect that we can give them,” says Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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