epitaph
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As one epitaph at Père-Lachaise puts it: “Alas!”
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
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
He was the first to describe the archaeopteryx after its discovery in Bavaria in 1861 and the first to write a formal epitaph for the dodo.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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