repose

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A moral universe in which I can meaningfully tell my beads for the repose of the souls of departed friends and family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

They will lie in repose together in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Ms Whyte's home village of Barefield from 15:00 until 19:00 BST.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

While her maybe-beau stays forced in repose, Iris cycles through all the different types of women she could be.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025

Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025

Determined that he should stir from this deathly posture, this fatal repose, I filled the spoon again, and held it before him as a command.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson