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tombstone

noun as in grave marker

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Dock, whose birth year engraved on his tombstone is a guess, was a child when he arrived in the U.S.

“It’ll be closure, that I can put on her tombstone: ‘Pre-deceased by her sons John and William.'

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Instead, it was placed on her grave as a tombstone out of respect for the contribution the woman had made to the community's food security.

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The bust, sculpted by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin, was placed on Morrison’s tombstone in 1981 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Doors frontman’s death.

“No one wants a tombstone that reads ‘Here lies the guy who killed the evening news,’” said Jonathan Wald, a veteran producer who worked with Brokaw on “NBC Nightly News.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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