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interment

[in-tur-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜr mənt /


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“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

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

“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

Uncles, aunties, cousins, other grandmas, other grandpas, his mom, and Jason shared stories and pictures of Grandma in the Nazlini Chapter House after the interment.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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

Last year, this African American cemetery of deep historical and spiritual significance for the community, with more than 800 interments, received a $14,500 grant from the Orton Foundation to help with restoration.

From Washington Post May 19, 2017

The human skeletons in them were of all ages, from infancy to old age; and the interments had been successive until each became filled.

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




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