as in to reinter
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Recent Examples of rebury
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.
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Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2024
Sometimes squirrels will even excavate and then rebury their nuts.
—Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
Lawmakers in Ohio and Illinois passed legislation this year with the aim of removing barriers to repatriation for the museums and tribes alike, while allowing land to be set aside to rebury the thousands of ancestors in each state.
—Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 26 Dec. 2023
The Wabanaki tribal nations — an alliance of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq — wanted to rebury the ancestral remains.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
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Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2024
Sometimes squirrels will even excavate and then rebury their nuts.
—Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
Lawmakers in Ohio and Illinois passed legislation this year with the aim of removing barriers to repatriation for the museums and tribes alike, while allowing land to be set aside to rebury the thousands of ancestors in each state.
—Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 26 Dec. 2023
The Wabanaki tribal nations — an alliance of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq — wanted to rebury the ancestral remains.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
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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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Mock suggests cleaning shower curtains monthly by placing them in the washer with a large towel and a small dose of laundry detergent.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2025
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An atmosphere both apologetic and hostile, orphaned amenities procured at clearance, curtains synthetic and religious in their weight and ability to absorb guilt.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
10 Jan. 2025
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The book might be considered a riposte to both right-wing and left-wing historiography in India; right-wing historians make fantastic claims that cloak India’s real and substantial achievements, while those on the left prioritize social history in a way that displaces intellectual achievement.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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If Derek Jeter invented the strategy of preemptive blandness, a verbal jiu-jitsu move that cloaks every utterance in a gauze of impenetrable nothingness, Tom Brady has earned a Vantablack® belt in the discipline.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Rebury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebury. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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