epitaph
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When the cartographer James Cheshire stumbled into the room in University College London several years ago, he encountered less a resource for mapping the modern globe than “an epitaph of a world we once knew.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
If we were to assign his TV father an epitaph, he could do a lot worse than the unvarnished speech that closes the first season.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025
Despite all this Mr Varvill's own epitaph for the business overshadows technological milestones.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025
If this ends up being Cronenberg’s last, he’ll have gone out with a worldly, weighty epitaph.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
It would make a good epitaph for Billy Pilgrim—and for me, too.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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A Raisin in the Sun
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