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interment

[in-tur-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜr mənt /


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When he learned of Lanchester's interment, during the course of his regular research into historic death certificates, he decided she would be his next memorial project.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

His funeral ceremony at the National Cathedral will be held the following day — which President Biden has decreed a national day of mourning — followed by a private interment in his Georgia hometown, Plains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025

“This moment,” said the Rev. Jesse Wendell Mapson, a local pastor involved in planning the commemoration and interment of the 19, “has not come without some pain, discomfort and tension.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

Ordinarily at the cemetery the lid of a coffin was lifted a final time before interment, allowing loved ones to say good-bye, but the condition of Anna’s body made that impossible.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

So it said it was "with regret" that historic areas of the gardens could no longer accommodate further interments alongside previous remains.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

The statement called for demarcated and documented individual graves, saying hasty interments could lead to mental anguish for families as well as social and legal problems.

From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2023

Dedicated in 1848, it boasts more than 120,000 interments that include the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, paupers and bourbon barons alike.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020

The District’s public disposition program provides cremations and interments of the indigent and unclaimed bodies.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2019

The bodies were buried in the contracted posture which is so characteristic of Neolithic interments generally.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various




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