rebury

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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for rebury 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rebury
Verb
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • In the master bath, peacock blue Clé tiles pave an arched bathing nook curtained in a sprigged floral from Una Malan.
    Sarah Medford, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
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  • Trump also makes clear his intent to apply painful public and government pressure on private-sector DEI practices as well, and does not cloak his reasons.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
  • And the Podcast Philosopher™, who cloaks shallow takes on relationships in intellectual jargon, tossing them out like mic drops.
    Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025

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“Rebury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebury. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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