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interment

[in-tur-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜr mənt /


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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

And I remembered how intensely I felt about my interment.

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

The crematorium would continue to offer new interments within other sections of the gardens and its team was available to support families in exploring options.

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

Dedicated in 1848, it boasts more than 120,000 interments that include the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, paupers and bourbon barons alike.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020

Last year, this African American cemetery of deep historical and spiritual significance for the community, with more than 800 interments, received a $14,500 grant from the Orton Foundation to help with restoration.

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2017

He has found a spade, which has doubtless remained there ever since the interments, and he finishes burying the little bottle which is to serve as a token.

From War by Pierre Loti


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