casket
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Others surged towards the casket, dancing, clapping, ululating; all through tears.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
He was three years old when a photographer captured him saluting his father’s casket, and for many years, that was how most of America pictured him.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
His family says he ended his life as a private citizen whose dying wish—literally from his deathbed—was that Hichilema not even be allowed near his casket.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
His remains are to stay in a cemetery outside Paris, but officers carried a symbolic casket draped in a French flag into the former church on the capital's left bank under a cascade of applause.
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025
He reminded us that Dwayne Slater had made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, had died for all of us, before the white-gloved soldiers stepped forward to fold the Stars and Stripes covering the casket.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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