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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cremate .
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Examples
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By that I believe she was referring to day trippers or history buffs rather than family members interring loved ones; while most of Woodlawn's residents—among them Herman Melville , Fiorello La Guardia , Duke Ellington , Irving Berlin , Thomas Nast and Miles Davis , to name but a few—haven't been pursuing their careers for a while, the cemetery still buries a thousand bodies a year and cremates an additional 2,100.
Life Among the Headstones Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Sheen naturally cremates his son's remains and decides to finish the journey for him, even though the kid had only just started out on the epic trek.
Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Festival Days 7 and 8: Boston, Beliefs and Bang Bang Club 2010
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It tells the story of a father who heads to France to claim the body of his son who died on his way to the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, and when he gets there and cremates his son, he decides to carry out his son's pilgrimage.
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Sheen naturally cremates his son's remains and decides to finish the journey for him, even though the kid had only just started out on the epic trek.
Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Festival Days 7 and 8: Boston, Beliefs and Bang Bang Club 2010
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I knocked off his carcass with my foot, and he will likely stay in my home until someone cremates me.
Barnacle philosophy doyle 2009
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I knocked off his carcass with my foot, and he will likely stay in my home until someone cremates me.
Archive 2009-03-01 doyle 2009
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The US military will no longer cremate troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at a Dover facility that also cremates pets, the Pentagon announced Friday at a hastily planned new conference.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Military stops cremating troops at Delaware facility that handles pets 2008
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The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.
Archive 2008-05-01 CC 2008
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The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.
Support the troops. Arf. CC 2008
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Military stops cremating troops at Delaware facility that handles pets 2008
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