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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

Military veterans are entitled to interment at a national or state cemetery, but White Tanks becomes the final resting place for hundreds of people annually, with 513 burials there last year.

From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024

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

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

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

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 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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