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
“She had a double affection for the two countries,” Ms. Baker’s daughter, Marianne Bouillon-Baker, said at an American reception on the eve of the entombment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
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
The air inside felt stale, and I started to imagine all of the souls that once resided in this icy entombment.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2021
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 Walter Harte
