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Recent Examples of rebury
The team decided to rebury the tracks with fine sand until a detailed excavation was possible.
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
Climate change is altering the length of days on Earth, according to new research
The rivers are also reburying a considerable amount of mercury, leading the researchers to emphasize the importance of understanding both the erosion and reburial processes.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
Israel denies wrongdoing but acknowledges exhuming bodies that had already been buried, then reburying them, in its search for hostages taken captive into Gaza during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2024
In 2023, a new state law was passed at the urging of the museum to remove potential barriers to repatriation and allow land to be set aside for reburying the ancestral remains of Native Americans.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2024
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
Climate change is altering the length of days on Earth, according to new research
The rivers are also reburying a considerable amount of mercury, leading the researchers to emphasize the importance of understanding both the erosion and reburial processes.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
Israel denies wrongdoing but acknowledges exhuming bodies that had already been buried, then reburying them, in its search for hostages taken captive into Gaza during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2024
In 2023, a new state law was passed at the urging of the museum to remove potential barriers to repatriation and allow land to be set aside for reburying the ancestral remains of Native Americans.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebury
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Ever since 2008, a group of residents here has been searching for a place to build a memorial and reinter the remains of African Americans whose nearby burial ground was taken over by municipal projects.—
Jane Margolies,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2022
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Reburials are delayed while the state has yet to distribute money necessary to fix the cemeteries and reinter them in new graves.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
9 Mar. 2022
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Hang curtains wider and higher with enough fullness to achieve a designer look.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
19 Jan. 2026
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What to do instead: Hang curtains higher and long enough to just graze the floor.—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
14 Jan. 2026
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Chef Brian Young, who honed his chops at Le Bernardin and The Quilted Giraffe, channels tradition and elegance with dishes like lobster thermidor, chicken cordon bleu, and a gorgeous sablefish cloaked in caviar beurre blanc.—
Andrea Strong,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Feb. 2026
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What image could be more apt for Fournier’s collection, which cloaks the everyday inside defamiliarizing forms, discovering in the severest subjects a counterintuitive reservoir of play?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Rebury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebury. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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