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Realizing in real-time that they had walked straight into a trap, the senator’s team tried to bury the evidence and move on before anyone noticed.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Though her urn remains in the place she loved most, Landers hopes, someday, to bury her ashes in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her youngest son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The driverless tractor with spiked steel wheels will run over a programmed course, flattening newly spread trash to create space to bury more garbage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Let us grieve and bury my son King Oyo."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The nation could hardly bury its martyred Father Abraham with a lead ball lodged in his brain.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
At every turn, Schoenbrun buries the movie alive, heaping layer upon layer of meta subtext onto it.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
The road ahead is still uncertain as Iran buries the last of the first-generation founders of its 1979 revolution.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Dozens of crumbling buildings in Venezuela's decimated earthquake zone bear a spray-painted letter 'D' -- a sign that buries any hope of finding life beneath the rubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
She buries some of her most colorful observations in the endnotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The wind makes her eyes water and buries their shoes in sand, hurls knots of dead grass from the curved ridges of one dune to another.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
In late September, a Kenyan court ordered a pause to construction after more than 100 Lamu residents sued alleging that the refinery threatened ancestral land where they had farmed and buried their families for generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
A small group of scientists hope the key to unlocking its long-term survival is buried in the sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nepal has buried more than 1,200 bodies, carefully numbering and tagging them so they can be retrieved if a DNA match is found.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
My son thinks I should sell the house and rent a place near him in Charlotte, N.C., but I’ve lived in this town for 40 years, and my wife is buried here.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Whimpering like a pup under a tub, Mama buried her face in Papa’s chest.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The year after that, heavy rains pummeled the burn scar, burying buildings and vehicles under mud and debris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Why does tennis keep burying its best product?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"In the Wasatch, the mountains themselves are eroding and burying the snow, and that's why the rock glaciers exist," Anderson noted.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
A former Monsanto worker who spent three years helping seal toxic waste underground said staff had "cheap" protective equipment and were not told what they were burying.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Not every day you see someone burying a bird.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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