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  • The judge scanned the obituary she had cut from Saturday's newspaper.  (source)
    obituary = notice of someone's death printed in a newspaper with a short biography
  • I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me.  (source)
    obituary = notice of someone's death with a short biography
  • Russell Allen Phillips had officially been declared dead, but no obituary appeared.  (source)
    obituary = published notice of death -- typically with a short biography
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  • There was a brief obituary in the Colored News, but there was also an editorial.  (source)
    obituary = notice of someone's death -- typically with a short biography
  • I guess the point I'm trying to make is that as a species we're just no good at writing obituaries.  (source)
    obituaries = death notices with short biographies
  • Harry finished reading, but continued to gaze at the picture accompanying the obituary.  (source)
    obituary = published notice of death with a short biography
  • For years she had read The Welch Daily News only for the obituaries and black-bordered memorial notices, clipping and saving her favorites.  (source)
    obituaries = death notices -- typically with a short biographies
  • According to his obituary, Mercer had never lost touch with his hometown.†  (source)
    obituary = published notice of death with a short biography
  • This young girl kept a scrap-book when she was alive, and used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patient suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer, and write poetry after them out of her own head.  (source)
    obituaries = death notices -- typically with a short biographies
  • Between the beats she had ample time to write her own obituary.†  (source)
    obituary = published notice of death with a short biography
  • Pick up the Milwaukee Journal tomorrow and check the obituaries; I'd bet you fifty dollars you find someone who died in some sort of freak accident.†  (source)
    obituaries = published death notices with short biographies
  • It was a simple obituary which seemed to have no connection with Annie Wilkes at all.†  (source)
    obituary = published notice of death with a short biography
  • We see it every day: in the obituaries for teenage kids that conspicuously omit the cause of death (reading between the lines: overdose), in the deadbeats we watch our daughters waste their time with.†  (source)
    obituaries = published death notices with short biographies
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