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casket

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


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The group then reconvened at the Glendale cemetery, where a priest said prayers over the casket, which was gently lowered into the ground as teary-eyed friends and family members watched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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

Video footage showed mourners pushing and shoving each other to get close to the casket as it was carried by hand through the mausoleum's halls.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

She sat down in the first row, nearest to the casket holding the body of her friend, grieving in silence.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

State media showed five simple caskets wrapped in Iranian flags inside the mosque, including a small one containing the body of Khamenei’s 1-year-old granddaughter who Iran said was killed in the airstrike alongside him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Hughes himself lay in one of the caskets to experience it.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

When Old Glory was planted on the moon in 1969, it had already draped the caskets of tens of thousands of soldiers who died in Vietnam.

From Salon ● Jan. 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

They finished loading the caskets, and the major drove his jeep around the front of the plane and signaled the officer with the new guys.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers


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