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undertaker

[uhn-der-tay-ker, uhn-der-tay-ker] / ˈʌn dərˌteɪ kər, ˌʌn dərˈteɪ kər /
NOUN
funeral director
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Kate said the undertaker told her Paul had a tag on him saying "environmental hazard" while his body was in the morgue.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Many former customers said Bush had presented as the archetypal, caring undertaker; a point noted by Hull West and Haltemprice MP Emma Hardy.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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

A pilgrimage to the oldest concrete road in America detours to meeting a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed Chef Boyardee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

Scott Mathis, the Big Hill Trading Company owner who was friends with Hale and Mollie, was asked to supervise the grim task, and he went to the cemetery with his undertaker and a grave digger.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Now undertakers are offering dedicated spaces to families.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

A mother whose stillborn baby was discovered in a Hull undertakers almost two years after his funeral says she is trying to forgive the man responsible.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

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

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

It was a list of funerals he’d gotten from the undertakers.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez


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