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necrology

[nuh-krol-uh-jee, ne-] / nəˈkrɒl ə dʒi, nɛ- /
NOUN
death notice
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NOUN
obituary
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Antonyms
WEAK
birth announcement


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How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2021

Whitman’s name doesn’t come up in Vanessa Gould’s “Obit,” a documentary about The Times’s necrology team at work.

From New York Times Apr. 25, 2017

I mean, no Rivette in the necrology montage?

From New York Times Feb. 29, 2016

One of the most popular improvements was a necrology, a list of the names of the dead, which began appearing in the third edition.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

All the phantoms of this necrology were passing before my eyes!

From A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) by Verne, Jules

A searchable database of necrologies retrieves different spellings of family names.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a rule the necrologies find me personally interested—when they treat of old stagers.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

But of these gentlemen I find no account in the fashionable necrologies.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall




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