deceased
Example Sentences
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As they reach old age, the business of burial is poised for an influx of money and new ideas, including biodegradable coffins and holograms of the deceased to display as digital memorials.
To investigate these questions, Bailey is analyzing gray wolf teeth from museum collections and recently deceased animals using stable-isotope techniques.
From Science Daily
In prior years, you scrawled “deceased” and the date of death on the top of returns such as these.
From MarketWatch
He also started diligently airbrushing or painting over photographs of the deceased: “I paint out all the abrasions, cuts and bruises, and open the eyes,” he explained, essentially resurrecting a likeness of the victim.
For example, a study published in Nature Medicine early last year announced it had detected relatively large particles -- the researchers claimed it was a plastic spoon's worth -- inside the brains of recently deceased people.
From Barron's
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