mortician
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Gebbai the mortician spoke with steely-eyed resolve, but it began to crack when he remembered one young man.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Lucy likens her job to being a mortician or life insurance broker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
She trained as a forensic pathologist and worked as a mortician in Mexico City.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
The once unidentified man was in jail accused of being a thief, and he was accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with new embalming techniques.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2023
Charlie Ledley was even worse: He had the pallor of a mortician and the manner of a man bent on putting off, for as long as possible, definite action.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
During a previous spike in gold prices, Clark said, people were asking morticians for permission to pull gold teeth from the mouths of dead family members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
From gravediggers to morticians, funeral directors to coroners, these workers carry deep psychic wounds of war — and have few others who can relate to them.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022
It put out a plea for donations including tissues and cleaning supplies and got help from morticians from outside Uvalde.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
Someone joked that morticians always had money and she’d thought about her interests—architecture, computers, landscape design.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022
The Catholic calendar in my bedroom was printed by W. F. Gormley and Sons, morticians.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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