necrology
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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
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Though largely ecclesiastical, its author— a college A. M.—realizes the value of statistics in references to population, necrology, taxes, militia, farming, and other industries, and weaves them into his rambling story.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise
A searchable database of necrologies retrieves different spellings of family names.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But of these gentlemen I find no account in the fashionable necrologies.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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