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undertaker

[uhn-der-tey-ker, uhn-der-tey-ker] / ˈʌn dərˌteɪ kər, ˌʌn dərˈteɪ kər /
NOUN
funeral director
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"If you can't trust a funeral undertaker, who can you trust? How can someone be so callous, cold and calculated?"

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Durham Police and Durham County Council will work with a local undertaker to perform a funeral later this month, with the child to be buried in Bishop Auckland cemetery.

From BBC Apr. 14, 2026

Recalls a peeved Mr. Blankfein: “It was like the undertaker calling at your sickbed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

“I figured on getting back and getting the hired girl with the hearse, but he beat me,” the Big Hill undertaker said.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Now undertakers are offering dedicated spaces to families.

From Barron's Feb. 25, 2026

Every autumn, as leaves turn from green to auburn and float to the ground, we turn into a nation of outdoor undertakers.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 16, 2025

“The Mortician” is not the cable network’s first series about a family of undertakers operating a Pasadena funeral home.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2025

Modern Western culture caricatures vultures as undertakers, grim harbingers of death and hardly ideal images of maternal love.

From Salon May 11, 2025

“The undertakers got a group, and they marched,” Reese recalled.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman




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