as in to put away
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Recent Examples of inurn
The proposal also would end burial eligibility for military retirees but still allow them to be inurned above ground, according to a comparison of the new proposals and current rules on the cemetery’s website.
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BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
The proposal also would end burial eligibility for military retirees but still allow them to be inurned aboveground, according to a comparison of the new proposals and current rules on the cemetery’s website.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
Virginia will be cremated and inurned in the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC with her husband.
—Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Feb. 2018
BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
The proposal also would end burial eligibility for military retirees but still allow them to be inurned aboveground, according to a comparison of the new proposals and current rules on the cemetery’s website.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
Virginia will be cremated and inurned in the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC with her husband.
—Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inurn
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Foldable for easy storage, this set can quickly be put away when inclement weather rolls in.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
16 Sep. 2025
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How much to put away for emergencies Generally, financial advisors recommend having three to six months’ worth of expenses stashed in a savings account for emergencies.—
Natalie Wu,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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More to Explore Speleologists found Mörk’s remains and interred them in the Eisriesenwelt in 1925.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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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
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Rather than inhume Bubbles and Freddy, Papdale students opted for a funeral at sea.—
Brigit Katz,
Smithsonian,
3 Mar. 2017
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Jax heterosexually admired Jade Cargill’s body, but buried Jade’s in-ring ability.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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Two weeks after Priscilla's grandson Benjamin Keough, the son of the late Lisa Marie Presley and her ex-husband Danny Keough, was buried following his death by suicide at age 27 in 2020, Navarone, 38, came to his mom asking for help getting off fentanyl.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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In order to become proper Chinese third graders—to go all the way from Heaven to tomb—Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred characters.—
Peter Hessler,
The New Yorker,
26 June 2023
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Only a few other states, including Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, have environmental protections enshrined in their constitutions.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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One day, Scherzer will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame as a member of the Washington Nationals.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Inurn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inurn. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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