as in to rebury
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Recent Examples of reinter
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.
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Jane Margolies, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
Reburials are delayed while the state has yet to distribute money necessary to fix the cemeteries and reinter them in new graves.
—Longreads, 9 Mar. 2022
In September of 1899, his body was exhumed by Cuban authorities to reinter him at a monument in his honor.
—Griffin Black, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2020
Kukana Kama-Toth, vice chair of the Waimanalo Neighborhood Board, who helped reinter the remains, said they were treated with respect and protocols were followed.
—Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reinter
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History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.—
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Beginning Tuesday morning, the Prairie Island Indian Community held ceremonies to rebury the remains of 59 people and almost 500 sacred items.—
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Are shower curtains a design staple of the past?—
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Tub or washing machine Detergent Scrub brush Magic Eraser (optional) Gloves (for safety) Mask (for safety) Method 1: Soaking with Bleach (for plastic shower curtains and white fabric shower curtains only) Take down the shower curtain.—
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Magazine's Summer Digital issue, opened up to the outlet about making her way through the industry, especially while being enshrouded by her family name.—
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On May 23, with wildfire smoke from western Canada enshrouding the city, one site in Denver surpassed 81 ppb of ozone pollution, compared with an average level of about 40 ppb for the year so far.—
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“Reinter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reinter. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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