INURNED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

inurned

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past tense of inurn

as in interred

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By comparison, according to the study, the burial robes of King Sigismund III Vasa and Queen Constance of Habsburg, interred around the same time in Kraków in southern Poland, contain not a single pure gold thread.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Burr Oak was the area’s first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African American families would bury relatives there over the years.

— Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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Country music icon Dolly Parton will be entombed next to her husband Carl Thomas Dean in Tennessee.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
The consensus seems to be that these bizarre objects, which were first discovered in 2022, are growing supermassive black holes entombed within huge clouds of gas that have spectrums similar to cool, red stars, such as red giants.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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In a gesture of peace, al Sharaa enshrined key rights for Kurds via presidential decree, such as protection of the Kurdish language and recognition of Kurdish holidays.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026
Others have enshrined its status as a country standard with their own straightforward covers.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026

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