epitaph

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When Dombrowski signed shortstop Trea Turner to a $300 million contract in 2022, he explained his decision by delivering the quote that could double as his epitaph.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 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

On the headstone marking his grave, the epitaph simply read “The Butler.”

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

Mr Suraiya, the magazine's most prolific and peripatetic writer, wrote the epitaph for a dream that died young.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

It was an epitaph that could have been written for Finch, except that I’ve written one for him myself: Theodore Finch—I was alive.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven