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casket

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


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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

On Wednesday, Khamenei’s casket will be transported to Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, where Iran supports numerous armed groups, and where many among the Shia majority population regard Khamenei as a religious authority.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Women carry the casket of Razieh Zamani, a 34-year-old teacher at the Shajareh Tayyebeh school, toward the Minab cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Beto stood in the darkened kitchen and traced the edge of the real casket, the one that was right and tight and smooth from sanding.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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

We all talked nervously, not looking at the stack of silver caskets that were being loaded on.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers




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