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
Now, 100 years after the first entombment, Blassie’s exhumation is part of a broader challenge to “the nationalist ideology” that the tombs represent, said Michael J. Allen, a history professor at Northwestern University.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
Thanks to this latest exploit, evolutionary biologist Catherine La Farge arrived centuries later at Teardrop’s melting edge to find the tuft of the species Aulacomnium turgidum finally free from its icy entombment.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2019
The Solari sign at Union Station in New Haven was removed for entombment in the Danbury Rail Museum, after a failed fight to save it.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2016
Conflicting reports about the place of his death and entombment, strange tales of his reappearance, have made him a second Boabdil, unburied, always returning to the beloved home of his youth.
From The Counts of Gruyère by Anna De Koven
