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[in-tur] / ɪnˈtɜr /


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“Historically Pakistan always wanted to be seen as primus inter pares”—first among equals—“in the Muslim world,” says Farzana Shaikh, an expert on Pakistan at the British think tank Chatham House, in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

When the prime minister addresses the cabinet, not far away in 10 Downing Street, he is primus inter pares, first among equals, sitting among his or her ministers.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2025

The museum has an ethical obligation to “exhaust all means” of finding people’s names and families before deciding to inter them, she says.

From Science Magazine Jan. 23, 2024

On Monday afternoon, half a dozen gravediggers took a break in the shade, waiting for the latest coffin to inter at the cemetery, called Lychakiv.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2023

“Listen, I’m glad we’ve run inter yeh, Ronan, ’cause there’s a unicorn bin hurt — you seen anythin’?”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

His engineers turned down the request, and the McLarens stuck with the inters, Norris using their extra warmth and poor starts from both Mercedes to take the lead.

From BBC May 24, 2026

"Now, if we look the race on TV again, we will stop for inters, yes, 100% yes. That was better," he said.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2023

Two laps after Perez pitted, Leclerc and Verstappen also stopped for inters, but such had been Perez's pace, Leclerc emerged from the pits behind the Red Bull, albeit still ahead of Verstappen.

From BBC May 29, 2022

According to its website, South-View Cemetery was founded after the end of the Civil War by former slaves and inters the bodies of more than 80,000 African Americans.

From Fox News Jul. 30, 2020

So Jones inters it in the darkest corner of the music-cabinet.

From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

Evidence suggests the site was prepared with care, and the victims were interred with personal belongings such as bronze jewellery and ceramic drinking vessels.

From Science Daily Mar. 9, 2026

After a memorial service in France and a Cuban state funeral, his ashes were interred in Havana.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

Valentino will be cremated, with his ashes interred at Rome's Flaminio Cemetery.

From BBC Jan. 23, 2026

The next morning, we detour north to the Ossuaire de Douaumont, where the remains of 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun are interred inside a giant stone memorial.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 28, 2025

King Hamlet's body was interred beneath the floor of Elsinore's chapel, near his father's bones and those of his father's father.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

It notes that mass burials and mass graves were "not a customary way of interring the dead in the Roman Empire", and were mostly used in extreme situations and mass casualty events.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2025

“There was way too much death for the system to handle,” recalls Amy Koplow, the executive director of the Hebrew Free Burial Association, which is interring some Jewish people who were at the temporary morgue.

From Seattle Times Jul. 5, 2021

There are enormous practical difficulties, often involving by-laws on the burial of human remains, when it comes to interring so many bodies.

From The Guardian Jul. 4, 2020

What MIT tried to do was suggest that the good Koch did for the institution’s endowment should live after him, while interring the evil with his bones.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2019

We wouldn’t be interring him in the Atlantic, but a pauper’s grave was just as permanent.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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