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interment

[in-tur-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜr mənt /


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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

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all flags lowered to half-staff in honor of Marburger until sunset on the day of his funeral and interment.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

And I remembered how intensely I felt about my interment.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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 see indications of it in the interments of old stone-age grave mounds.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various




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