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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

Both inside the Cathedral and out, there were so many heartfelt epitaphs paid to Charlton's life, but it was possibly Reverend Grace Thomas who best summed up his legacy.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023

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

None of the Sagalassos graves bore epitaphs, and genetic material is often destroyed by high temperatures in ancient cremations.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

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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