bury
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"I definitely lead a lot with my head and try and push aside, bury my emotion."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Acme has spent the past several years in cinematic purgatory after its original studio tried to bury it for a tax write-off.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
The floods and landslides that struck Nepal and China's autonomous Tibet region saw a tsunami-like wall of water bury homes, smash bridges and sweep away vehicles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
I don’t want to bury that under caveats.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
I take the wasp’s body outside and bury it.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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At every turn, Schoenbrun buries the movie alive, heaping layer upon layer of meta subtext onto it.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
The commission is a German non-profit organisation that searches, recovers and buries the war dead on behalf of the German government.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Dozens of crumbling buildings in Venezuela's decimated earthquake zone bear a spray-painted letter 'D' -- a sign that buries any hope of finding life beneath the rubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
She padlocks the gate when she returns and buries witchy talismans around the property to ward off intruders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Then she buries her head against my shoulder.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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A woman whose baby was taken from her in a forced adoption aged 16 has said important questions about the UK's mother-and-baby homes remain unanswered, including how many children were buried in unmarked graves.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Continental said the field it plans to explore sits north of Venezuela’s Orinoco River in the state of Anzoátegui, encompassing 126,000 acres with an estimated 30 billion barrels of oil resources buried underground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Some shipwrecks are partly or completely buried beneath sediment, which can greatly reduce their ability to release pollutants into the surrounding water.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
But 63-year-old Munoz, who hopes to be buried in her tribe's traditional burial ground, said she would not leave, even if a backhoe flattened her home.
From Barron's
Then he buried it and waited for the next bone.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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"In the Wasatch, the mountains themselves are eroding and burying the snow, and that's why the rock glaciers exist," Anderson noted.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
One of them was a former Monsanto worker who spent three years helping to seal toxic waste underground and said staff had "cheap" protective equipment and were not told what they were burying.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The burying of the hatchet is a great relief for Edwards, who was troubled by the tension between his colleagues during their time on “Good Day L.A.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
After months of burying the accusations, and more than two years of dithering, the International Criminal Court at last fired its prosecutor, Karim Khan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was as if he had given up; he had accepted the radioactive dirt and it had begun its job, long ago, of burying him.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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