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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

Cora reached for her hair before realizing that after her interment there was no improving her appearance.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Neath Port Talbot council said: "The crematorium grounds can 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

She’d opted to confine her legislation to a three-decade period, she said, because she didn’t believe record-keeping was comprehensive enough to review all interments since Arlington’s establishment in 1864.

From Washington Post Jun. 28, 2022

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

The bodies were buried in the contracted posture which is so characteristic of Neolithic interments generally.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various




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