casket
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The group then reconvened at the Glendale cemetery, where a priest said prayers over the casket, which was gently lowered into the ground as teary-eyed friends and family members watched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Harald's casket was then carried in a procession to the Palace Chapel at Akershus Fortress, where a private ceremony was attended by family members, foreign royals and other guests including the country's prime minister.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
His body was returned to Serbia on a government plane on Thursday, with his casket draped in flags and received with military honours.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
On Wednesday, Khamenei’s casket will be transported to Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, where Iran supports numerous armed groups, and where many among the Shia majority population regard Khamenei as a religious authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
We just stand while the casket is lowered into the ground, and after ten minutes of respectful silence, the gravediggers move up from behind us to begin filling the open hole with dirt.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
Crucially, it held on to its stockpile of nearly 1,000 pounds of near weapons-grade uranium—half of it buried in caskets in a tunnel deep under its Isfahan nuclear site, according to the U.N. atomic agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Hughes himself lay in one of the caskets to experience it.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Indian authorities said an inscription on one of the caskets unearthed with the treasure confirmed the contents -- which include bone fragments -- as "relics of the Buddha".
From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026
The point of opening the caskets of our forgotten history is to foster the self-understanding necessary to empower the work of creating a future that upholds the democratic creed that “all men are created equal.”
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024
They finished loading the caskets, and the major drove his jeep around the front of the plane and signaled the officer with the new guys.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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