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interment

[in-tur-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜr mənt /


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It is rather a worry about the national trend away from interment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win?” he said in a mid-December statement announcing his turnabout and the study’s unceremonious interment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 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

He will receive final military honors at a private interment.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Ordinarily at the cemetery the lid of a coffin was lifted a final time before interment, allowing loved ones to say good-bye, but the condition of Anna’s body made that impossible.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

So it said it was "with regret" that historic areas of the gardens could 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

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

Some of them contain within the mound a stone chamber, at times with a gallery leading to it, and in the chamber the interment or interments took place.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various


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