bury
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“I don’t want to bury you,” he recalled her saying.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
“In Ituri, people want to bury their own family members.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Salah knows the implications of what he has said, about how Liverpool must return to being a "heavy metal attacking team" and he is trying to bury Slot.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Mother begs the captain to let us keep Father’s body on board until we land, so that we can bury him, but the captain says the dead cannot remain aboard the ship.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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