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
“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
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all flags lowered to half-staff in honor of Marburger until sunset on the day of his funeral and interment.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 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
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
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
The District’s public disposition program provides cremations and interments of the indigent and unclaimed bodies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2019
Very few have any reference to Christianity, but they served as indestructible marks for indicating the position of interments in the catacombs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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