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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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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

"I think he was living beyond his means," says Patrick Moore about disgraced undertaker Robert Bush.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 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

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

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

Finally, I let out a long breath and vowed to stop thinking about graves, and undertakers, and dead people.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool


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