epitaph
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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 ● Oct. 31, 2025
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
Despite all this Mr Varvill's own epitaph for the business overshadows technological milestones.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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
That’s not meant in a nice way; but could there be a better epitaph for a rhetorician?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
“They’re like little epitaphs for the departed,” Ruscha says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
Even on a chilly day, visitors were weaving through tree-lined pathways to take in epitaphs from artists, philosophers and beloved residents.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 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
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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A Raisin in the Sun
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