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casket

[kas-kit, kah-skit] / ˈkæs kɪt, ˈkɑ skɪt /


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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

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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