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epitaph

[ep-i-taf, -tahf] / ˈɛp ɪˌtæf, -ˌtɑf /


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I hope my epitaph says something to the effect that I lived life to the fullest, taking advantage of every single moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He has his work cut out now to stop that becoming the epitaph to his premiership.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

If we were to assign his TV father an epitaph, he could do a lot worse than the unvarnished speech that closes the first season.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025

In words he shared with teenagers, Prefontaine wrote his own best epitaph: “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2025

His epitaph, which he himself composed, was: “I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth- bound the body rests.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

There’s an abundance of small slabs, simple epitaphs like Our Baby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

The epitaphs have been quick in coming; Maureen Dowd's recent column in the New York times may serve as representative of the conventional wisdom.

From Salon ● May 20, 2023

Social media erupted with epitaphs to the tiny cub.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2023

Recipe epitaphs actually make a lot of sense, Rhoads said, given the tie between food and death.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022

It was impossible, of course, to ignore the crosses, and each morning Jerry G. and Horsethief Shorty, occasionally aided by Bernabe Montoya and the state cops, had to uproot a dozen epitaphs.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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