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Al-Alami’s brother — who witnessed the entire event from the balcony — said the two events were not related and that earlier, another family had been burying a stillborn baby in a cemetery.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2021

“Humans had been burying people in ships for centuries and millennia,” says Brunning.

From National Geographic • Jan. 29, 2021

“In the end, we traced it back to Hughes Aircraft, which had been burying toxic waste—mostly really mundane stuff, like airplane degreasers—in unlined pits in the ground since the Korean War.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2017

One of its earliest members, Martin Gjertson, had been burying his children on part of his land since 1868.

From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2015

It seemed that he, Wemple, and his two sons had been burying apples, and that hearing the shot fired, had started for their homes, where already the alarm had spread.

From The Reckoning by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)