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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More are thought to still be buried under the rubble.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Were they made earlier and kept until the moment of death? Were they painted at the time the deceased was buried? Were they panels that were hung in homes, in residences?" he asked.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
And once the primary ended, the pair could have buried the hatchet permanently rather than letting the tensions simmer into the general election.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Mr. Tullett offers the example of bees that have been trained to coalesce around buried explosives in ways that can be mapped from a safe distance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Her classmates folded 356 cranes so that 1,000 were buried with Sadako.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
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