Modern obituaries are commonly written before the fact and kept on file for instant insertion when the occasion arises.
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Obituaries
Synonyms for "obituaries" (11 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
biographical archivebiographical articlebiographical notice
Strong matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
death noticedeath notice corpusdeath notices section
Related words (5)
Noun(5 words)
eulogistic obituarymemorial essayobituary corpusobituary noticeobituary section
Related word relations
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More general
11 entriesannouncementarchival materialbiographical noticebiographical writingdata resourceliterary genrememorial genrenews articlenewspaper sectionpublication sectiontext corpus
More specific
11 entriesbiographical archivedeath notices archivedeath notices rounduplife summarymemorial pageobituary collectionobituary columnobituary essayobituary featurepaid obituarytribute article
Collocations
6 entriesdeath noticesmemorial pageobituaries sectionobituary columnobituary noticepaid obituary
Derivations
2 entriesobituary collectionobituary notice
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
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I used to think obituaries were depressing.
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These faces that used to be the front-page headlines have now gone to the back-page obituaries.
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