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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But there’s a “gap” between having the documents and actually being prepared, according to Adam Zuckerman, founder of estate-planning resource website Buried in Work and author of the book “No Loose Ends.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Buried under the capital’s broad avenues, however, are a series of public spaces eschewing classical ornament yet achieving something rarer—a monumental and timeless civic dignity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Buried within Warner Bros Discovery is TNT Sports, which provides an intriguing subplot in an acrimonious battle for some of the world's top TV shows and movies.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined around the clock by a secretive and heavily guarded industry.
From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025
Buried from root to crown in frozen snow, they huddled on the hill like giants, monstrous and misshapen creatures hunched against the icy wind.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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