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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

I also thought about how selfish I was being, but I knew that if it never happened, I would bury my dream and work hard at whatever job necessary to support my family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Many have never been able to bury a loved one, but some families choose to leave the remains - once found - at a repository at the 9/11 memorial site in New York.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

I immediately run over to Dad and bury my face in his chest.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

At every turn, Schoenbrun buries the movie alive, heaping layer upon layer of meta subtext onto it.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Instead, Microsoft buries Azure inside a segment called “Intelligent Cloud” that includes legacy software, forcing investors to guess where the legacy products end and the real cloud growth begins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The commission is a German non-profit organisation that searches, recovers and buries the war dead on behalf of the German government.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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

The whole table of boys starts cracking up, and blush girl runs back to her friends and buries her face in her hands.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

So much sand has eroded at the popular Newport Beach surfing spot The Wedge that remnants of decades-old buried infrastructure, like rusted metal rods and chunks of concrete, have been exposed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

When Parsons posted a note about the fraudulent charges, it was quickly buried by the nonsense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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

He had taken the hat, quickly dug a hole, buried the hat and smoothed the snow over it, then gone back to sitting, staring ahead, looking completely innocent.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

Over the scandalized protests of Úrsula, who wept with more grief than she had had for her own father, José Arcadio Buendía was opposed to their burying him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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