interred

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Evidence suggests the site was prepared with care, and the victims were interred with personal belongings such as bronze jewellery and ceramic drinking vessels.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

Her remains were instead interred in a remote cemetery, far from the family home.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

The next morning, we detour north to the Ossuaire de Douaumont, where the remains of 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun are interred inside a giant stone memorial.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

From Scotland to China, and from Iceland to West Africa, they have been interred under heavy stones, staked or nailed into graves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Where his pectoral muscles should be, he has a breast weighed down with the words of human beings: by words interred, free-as-a-bird absurd, unheard!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver