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epitaph

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


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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 this ends up being Cronenberg’s last, he’ll have gone out with a worldly, weighty epitaph.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

On the headstone marking his grave, the epitaph simply read “The Butler.”

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

Mr Suraiya, the magazine's most prolific and peripatetic writer, wrote the epitaph for a dream that died young.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

On the margin, in the secretary’s neat hand, was the laconic epitaph “susp.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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