inter
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Having said that, the inter will always be preferred simply because it is much more flexible - it can be used in quite heavy rain right up to when it's almost dry.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
There are no signs of violence, and the grave was probably opened multiple times over the course of several decades to inter new bodies.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 19, 2024
Shiv, as the funeral ends and the cemetery prepares to inter her father: “I’m intrigued to see how he gets out of this one.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
Christopher Taktak, Pisces’ chief executive, said a solution that is mostly warm water takes about four hours to leave behind bone material that people will inter or take home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
Grigori hadn’t kept these remnants to inter them with the dead.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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"Now, if we look the race on TV again, we will stop for inters, yes, 100% yes. That was better," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2023
Red Bull had taken the cue from Pierre Gasly's Alpha Tauri, who pitted for inters shortly after the start, but was for several laps stuck behind slower cars.
From BBC ● May 29, 2022
According to its website, South-View Cemetery was founded after the end of the Civil War by former slaves and inters the bodies of more than 80,000 African Americans.
From Fox News ● Jul. 30, 2020
If no relative claimed her remains, Dawn was told, Nakesha would most likely be buried on Hart Island, where the city inters unclaimed bodies in mass graves.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
While these thus in and out had circled Rome, Look, what the lightning blasted, Arruns takes, And it inters with murmurs dolorous, And calls the place Bidental.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
In 1989, during the French revolutionary bicentennial celebrations, Condorcet was symbolically interred in the Panthéon, but Brissot, who advocated the export of the revolution to other nations by force, remains a less-celebrated figure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Evidence suggests the site was prepared with care, and the victims were interred with personal belongings such as bronze jewellery and ceramic drinking vessels.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026
His body is interred at the Washington headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which also contains a small museum in his honour.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Because our main source of vehicular transportation was interred in Vine Station, Alabama, the Colonel and I were forced to walk to the Pelham Police Department to search for eyewitnesses.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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It notes that mass burials and mass graves were "not a customary way of interring the dead in the Roman Empire", and were mostly used in extreme situations and mass casualty events.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at a United Nations military cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Unlike interring the ashes, you can’t later decide to retrieve or move the ashes — they commingle with the soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
There is also the fact that the group advocating for interring the remains mostly consists of people of color while the park stewards are mostly white.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
We wouldn’t be interring him in the Atlantic, but a pauper’s grave was just as permanent.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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