epitaph
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I hope this doesn’t turn out to be the epitaph for the only viable political parties we have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
If this ends up being Cronenberg’s last, he’ll have gone out with a worldly, weighty epitaph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
After the manner in which England’s campaign was conducted, it was both comedy gold and the perfect epitaph for those few weeks in France.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
With a smile he copied out the warrior epitaph at Thermopylae: “Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by/that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
“They’re like little epitaphs for the departed,” Ruscha says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
And so, every New Year's Day the words of Amundsen and Scott, inscribed as epitaphs at the geographic South Pole, are ceremonially moved to the newly measured, precise bottom of the earth.
From Salon ● May 29, 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
Vocabulary lists containing epitaph
A Raisin in the Sun
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