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in repose



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On Friday, hundreds gathered in the village to pay respect to Ms Whyte and her children as they lay in repose together.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2025

While her maybe-beau stays forced in repose, Iris cycles through all the different types of women she could be.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2025

The space feels somewhere between a crypt and a cathedral, featuring paintings and bronze sculptures of reclining Black bodies, spread out in repose or entombed like corpses, that appear to glow from within.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2024

The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lay in repose at the Supreme Court on Dec. 18, with a private funeral the next day, according to the high court’s press office.

From Washington Times Dec. 5, 2023

Their faces in repose were twisted as though in anger, only it was not anger.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck




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