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epitaph

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


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Their epitaph was the greatest bloodbath in American history.

From The Wall Street Journal

When the cartographer James Cheshire stumbled into the room in University College London several years ago, he encountered less a resource for mapping the modern globe than “an epitaph of a world we once knew.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Instead, it seems that American exceptionalism will play a prominent role in the epitaph for American democracy.

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times