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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In the study, a canopy bed is curtained in a Holland & Sherry wool lined with a Carleton V ticking stripe.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
20 Mar. 2025
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Roche used the approach in her foyer, hanging wallpaper and doorway curtains in the same painterly stripe.—
Amy Panos,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Mar. 2025
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Designed to win over moderates and Northerners, the manifesto was cloaked in a reading of the U.S. Constitution that invoked Civil War-era theories of states’ rights.—
Essence,
Essence,
22 Mar. 2025
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Yesterday’s pangrams were cloaked, deadlock and deadlocked.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Rebury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebury. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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