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[in-tur] / ɪnˈtɜr /


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Chretien chose a spot in the garden where Jack loved to roam to inter his ashes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

The wet may provide more grip when it's very wet, but the extra flexibility of the inter will always win out if the conditions are variable, as they were at Silverstone.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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

At Hollywood Forever, and just about every other cemetery, you can inter a box or urn of ashes in the ground under a gravestone, where you’d lay the casket in a traditional burial.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023

And so, tomorrow night, we shall hold the first of these grim fêtes to inter the dead and trick the gods.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Mr. Seelig runs the All Souls Remembrance Program, which inters cremated remains in a cemetery for anyone of any faith, free of charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Red Bull had taken the cue from Pierre Gasly's Alpha Tauri, who pitted for inters shortly after the start, but was for several laps stuck behind slower cars.

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

If no relative claimed her remains, Dawn was told, Nakesha would most likely be buried on Hart Island, where the city inters unclaimed bodies in mass graves.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018

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

From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

Only 20% to 40% of cremated remains are buried or interred at a cemetery, according to the Cremation Association of North America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Princess Ita was buried beside Princess Khenmet, while Princess Itaweret was interred alongside an unidentified woman who has tentatively been identified as Princess Sathathormeryt.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

They uncovered his skeleton in 2012 and the remains, with Richard III's famous curved spine, were later interred at Leicester Cathedral.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

A lot of the people interred there are from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and now it’s becoming a place where filmmakers and musicians and artists are considering for their final resting place.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

He is interred on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party buried there.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

The little boy was buried by his parents, who believed he would be reincarnated if they followed a ritual while interring the body.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024

Unlike interring the ashes, you can’t later decide to retrieve or move the ashes — they commingle with the soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023

“That is because the decision succeeded in interring this sort of legislation and keeping it from spreading all around the country.”

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022

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

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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