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

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

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

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

He was the first to describe the archaeopteryx after its discovery in Bavaria in 1861 and the first to write a formal epitaph for the dodo.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson