interment
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It is rather a worry about the national trend away from interment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
As Plains busily prepared for a series of public events leading up to Carter’s funeral service and interment here next week, her hometown grieved the loss of its loving matriarch.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
They looked a long time for an area of earth among the rock faces large enough for the interment.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Neath Port Talbot Council said it was "no longer possible to find suitable space next to earlier interments without risking disturbance to existing 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
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
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 interments that have been effected in and around the Abbey since the remote age of Edward the Confessor must number thousands; but only about six hundred are named in the guide-books.
From Shakespeare's England by William Winter
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