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Recent Examples of inhume In the touring production presented by Broadway in Boston and inhumed at the Citizens Bank Opera House through May 14, the life we’re given gets all the bells and whistles, not to mention props and wisecracks. James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023 Rather than inhume Bubbles and Freddy, Papdale students opted for a funeral at sea. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017 Rather than inhume Bubbles and Freddy, Papdale students opted for a funeral at sea. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017
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Verb
  • But although tens of thousands of visitors were coming for respite, too few were buying: only a hundred and seventy-five people were interred there by 1843.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • Secretaries of State, including Colin Powell, John Dulles, Alexander Haig and George Marshall are interred at Arlington.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.
    Sonam Sheth Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Any parts of the hull that weren't quickly buried by silt have long since decomposed in the water.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 June 2025

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“Inhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhume. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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