as in buried
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea
there were so many dead that it was impossible to inhume them all promptly
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Yet there’s very little drama in Gowin’s pictures, and any plot is sketchy or buried.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026 -
The new picture also captures shadowy fractures and pits that hint at large volumes of water ice still buried beneath the surface, as well as numerous impact craters surrounded by the detritus of their own explosive formation.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2026
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Two years after her husband died, Celina Gonzalez had his remains interred in a San Diego cemetery.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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The annual event, held at the Memorial to the Six Million, also marked the site's 61st observance—a space considered sacred by many, where human ashes from Dachau and other Holocaust artifacts are interred.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Inhumed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumed. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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