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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

She called him "the undertaker" because of his liking for dark, sombre suits.

From BBC Jun. 22, 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

It’s very different from sleeping, no matter how much the undertaker has tried to make it look like sleeping.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Now undertakers are offering dedicated spaces to families.

From Barron's Feb. 25, 2026

Metz, chief executive of Meine Erde, has spent the past five-plus years crisscrossing Germany, trying to persuade lawmakers and medics, undertakers and religious authorities to approve human composting.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

“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

Later she learned he had been taken by boat and that undertakers had accompanied him.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2025

As the undertakers prepared to leave, one said to the other, “Well, that’s that. Almost a hundred years old and not a soul to mourn her.”

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn




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