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entombment

NOUN
burial
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Well, wouldn’t you go snorkeling around a solemn mass entombment if you got the chance, too?

From Slate ● May 16, 2026

Massive blast doors that looked like they belonged on the largest bank vault in the universe were supposed to keep us safe, though in a nuclear war they might only have ensured our entombment.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025

It’s a solitary, nocturnal job, but entombment works for Sol.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

Now, 100 years after the first entombment, Blassie’s exhumation is part of a broader challenge to “the nationalist ideology” that the tombs represent, said Michael J. Allen, a history professor at Northwestern University.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

We were the two persons who had been nearest to the Wolsey Oak between the period of his entombment and the search instituted throughout the Chase.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn




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