interment
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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
Military veterans are entitled to interment at a national or state cemetery, but White Tanks becomes the final resting place for hundreds of people annually, with 513 burials there last year.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
“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
Uncles, aunties, cousins, other grandmas, other grandpas, his mom, and Jason shared stories and pictures of Grandma in the Nazlini Chapter House after the interment.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
In spring 2020, as Covid-19 overwhelmed morgues, interments on Hart Island increased about fivefold to 120 per week from 25.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
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
At a great settlement of theirs, Golasecca, in Cisalpine Gaul, 6000 interments were found.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
Vocabulary lists containing interment
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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