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tombstone

noun as in grave marker

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Soviet officials based in New York traded jokes about the words that would appear on their tombstones.

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Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”

But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.

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"With just 22 million rupees, we've restored 92 buildings, eight or nine clocks, and some 1,300 tombstone plaques."

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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.

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

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