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casket

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


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Behind them is a black casket with the body of the eponymous Helena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

His body was returned to Serbia on a government plane on Thursday, with his casket draped in flags and received with military honours.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

That experience is due to come in handy, people around Brown say, now that the modern USW covers a spectrum of 850,000 cradle-to-grave workers from maternity nurses to casket makers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Mavericks fans staged a faux funeral complete with a casket a day later in front of the Dirk Nowitzki statue outside the American Airlines Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The undertaker demanded $1,450 for the casket, $100 for preparing and embalming the body, and $25 for the rental of a hearse.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Funeral homes charge for embalming, caskets, vaults and funeral services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 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

Saeed and Tia were buried the day after they died, by Rihab’s father and uncles, in temporary wooden caskets in an unmarked grave in Dahieh.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

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

When I was first getting to know her we were in a viewing room at the funeral parlor looking at a new line of cigar-shaped caskets that were called “Time Capsules of the Future.”

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos


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