burial
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Communities practiced cremation, traditional burials, skull only depositions, and complex multi stage burial rites, sometimes within the same settlements.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
It was later taken to a mosque where relatives and mourners offered prayers before carrying it through the streets for burial.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
They claimed the burial site was too close to their settlement.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Makan’s casket, however, is empty — a symbolic burial for a child whose body was never recovered from the wreckage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
I asked, praying he didn’t have burial shrouds hidden at the bottom of that trunk.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing burial
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -al, -ial
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"Taste of Salt" by Frances Collins, Chapters 13–18
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Doctor Faustus
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