interments

plural of interment
as in burials
the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place a respectful but nonreligious interment in a private cemetery

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burials
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  • Maryland officials reinterred 65 of the state's earliest settlers in a powerful ceremony more than 300 years after the settlers' first burials.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The burials of these individuals also show that they were integrated into their respective communities.
    Duncan Sayer, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Interments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interments. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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