buried
Americanadjective
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placed in the ground and covered with earth.
There are countless opportunities for leaks in the miles of buried, hard-to-inspect pipes under the nuclear plant site.
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(of a corpse) placed in the ground or a vault or tomb, or into the sea, often with ceremony.
Here, in the largest of these cemeteries, lie 12,000 buried soldiers from many countries.
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plunged deeply into something.
She looked in shock at the mayor, who was calmly taking the buried knife out of his chest without spilling a drop of blood.
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covered or concealed; made hard to find.
One of the best reasons for the poem’s effectiveness as propaganda is its barely buried exposé of the true engine of war: fear.
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put out of one’s mind.
These pages of fiction woke me up to the buried emotions left from a relationship that nearly cost me my life as a teen.
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“While buried under production and weather headlines, strengthening LNG demand—if sustained—may help natural gas find support,” Eli Rubin of EBW Analytics says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Juan Felipe Giraldo, the 24-year-old buried amid the shards of a ruined hotel, is supposed to get married on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Though not immediately visible to the naked eye, the ranch features a number of infrastructural updates, including automated irrigation and a fire suppression system that runs off an 18,000-gallon tank buried underground.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Archaeologists have discovered dogs buried beside humans in graves as old as 14,000 years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The Foxes brought Calvin’s body back to Rochester, where he was buried, “a husband, a son, and a brother—and a linch-pin in the cause of Spiritualism.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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