reinterment

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reburial
Noun
  • On June 16, 1989, 250,000 people gathered in Heroes’ Square for the ceremonial reburial of Imre Nagy, the prime minister who was executed after leading Hungary during the doomed 1956 revolution against the Soviets.
    Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Workmen dug up graves and boxed up bones for reburial.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Reinterment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reinterment. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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