entombment

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Massive blast doors that looked like they belonged on the largest bank vault in the universe were supposed to keep us safe, though in a nuclear war they might only have ensured our entombment.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

KRAKOW, Poland — On a slab in the middle of the stage is the body of an elderly man, being prepared for entombment.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

In 1998, 14 years after the Vietnam-era soldier’s entombment, he was exhumed and positively identified as Air Force Lt.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2021

The chapel provides evidence of Myra’s swift entombment.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2013

And Aaron Hill wrote an allegorical poem to show Pope the error of The Dunciad and to suggest means of escape from entombment "in his own PROFUND."

From An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad by Harte, Walter