epitaph
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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
It was his epitaph, and I think it sums up the whole quest for happiness.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
On the headstone marking his grave, the epitaph simply read “The Butler.”
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
His epitaph, which he himself composed, was: “I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth- bound the body rests.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
There’s an abundance of small slabs, simple epitaphs like Our Baby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
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
Vocabulary lists containing epitaph
A Raisin in the Sun
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