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headstone

[hed-stohn] / ˈhɛdˌstoʊn /
NOUN
gravestone
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"Psychologically, no, of course it didn't help - how could it?" said another woman, who had purchased an AI-generated photo of her late husband for his headstone.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Second, a granite headstone, measuring six feet by three feet, will be erected.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

A few pens have been left on the headstone, which has been replaced at least once; generations of fans have attempted to obliterate “Hughes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Other notable artifacts connected to St. Eustatius are a headstone from its Jewish cemetery, commemorating a merchant’s wife, and a Hanukkah lamp from Amsterdam that was eventually carried to St. Thomas by Jewish exiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Later his family had a headstone put in place that bore this warning verse:

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

The “expat graveyard” is filled with headstones of people who boldly declared, “We love it here. We’re never leaving.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

I’d have my older sister, Marie, take me there to create full characters based on the names on headstones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

An artist, she’s been drawing picture after picture of dogs since then, or images of headstones that say, “Jan. 8 RIP Jon Snow I love you,” and collecting small plastic husky figurines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

The newest headstones on the freshly-dug fringes of the graveyard tell an alarming story of a lost generation in this pretty tourist town on Scotland's west coast.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

They would sit on the ground among the old headstones and wait until the sage had burned away, and Ash still remembered the way she would fidget after only a few moments of stillness.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo


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