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bury

[ber-ee] / ˈbɛr i /


VERB
plant in ground
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The effect is especially disconcerting as this father and daughter navigate glad-handers and former Nazi collaborators in West Germany who are anxious to bury the past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

Both camps last week agreed to bury the hatchet—for now—as all of the party’s eight state governors agreed to write a joint letter that didn’t mention Merz by name but expressed support for the chancellor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"Let us grieve and bury my son King Oyo."

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Around 1894, an old friend offered to bury both sisters together in his plot at Cypress Hills.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

Mr. Yasunaga, however, forms his creations out of glaze and other ornaments, then buries the objects in sand or unrefined clay to fire them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

“But this one, Aragog, the first one Hagrid ever got, it died last night. He’s devastated. He wants company while he buries it and I said I’d go.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

The brilliant Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong is a suffering protagonist’s best friend, exploring the buried pain in people like no other filmmaker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

And Barrow insists that while their most recent encounter is "buried" and "in the past", he is using the chastening loss to help ensure England's readiness for this competition.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Eisenkot, a general who, in Leon’s words, “comes from the people,” and who buried his son Gal can make that case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The impact created what is now known as the Silverpit Crater, a massive structure buried deep beneath the seafloor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

He sat in his chair in the corner, his head buried in the newspaper that had come earlier that day.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Because the decomposition of organic matter can consume oxygen, burying more carbon helped favor the continued buildup of oxygen in the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

And the person they're burying is the disillusioned girl from Stop The Wedding.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“We’re challenging the buttoned-up paradigm of burying the dead. We’re keeping our dead alive through art, through talking about them always.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Why does tennis keep burying its best product?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

When I finished burying Daisy Mae, I looked up and all the boys except Quentin were there, called by the invisible network that still seemed to connect everybody in Coalwood.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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