casket
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That music accompanies us from birth to death is underscored by the giant guitar-case-shaped casket, “For a Musician,” produced by Ghanaian artist Paa Joe in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The VC-25A jets have larger doors that allow the planes to carry the casket of a deceased president in the passenger cabin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
When he went to see his friend, Bush told Banyard the deceased "didn't look good", so the lid of the casket was kept down.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Traditional leaders and some locals wanted to burn the compromised casket.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
It was open casket and I found myself searching her face.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Crucially, it held on to its stockpile of nearly 1,000 pounds of near weapons-grade uranium—half of it buried in caskets in a tunnel deep under its Isfahan nuclear site, according to the U.N. atomic agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Hughes himself lay in one of the caskets to experience it.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Indian authorities said an inscription on one of the caskets unearthed with the treasure confirmed the contents -- which include bone fragments -- as "relics of the Buddha".
From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026
The point of opening the caskets of our forgotten history is to foster the self-understanding necessary to empower the work of creating a future that upholds the democratic creed that “all men are created equal.”
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024
How the workers jumbled everything they found into five caskets and carted them off the island.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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