postmortem
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The executives said they were doing a postmortem on what had happened, and that the fund was reassessing how much risk it would embrace in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In the postmortem of Graham Platner’s disastrous campaign for Senate, much of the blame has fallen on one man: Daniel Moraff.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
That’s the view of Morgan Stanley strategists led by Mike Wilson, who, in a note published Monday, start with a postmortem of the latest pullback.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
Martha Smith-Higgins, prosecuting, said a postmortem revealed he suffered a hypnoxic brain injury, meaning a lack of oxygen to the brain, as well as a cardiac arrest and bleeding on the brain.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
“Resch will have a postmortem run on me, the same as your lab ran on Polokov. And he’ll still insist on a—what did you call it—Boneli Reflex-Arc Test on you and on himself.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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