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

It will then be brought back in front of the altar to await the service and later, entombment in a crypt below the altar.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2015

We were the two persons who had been nearest to the Wolsey Oak between the period of his entombment and the search instituted throughout the Chase.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James