mourners

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The men insisted relatives be allowed to conduct the burial themselves, in the traditional way, in which mourners say farewell by touching the dead one last time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

It was later taken to a mosque where relatives and mourners offered prayers before carrying it through the streets for burial.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

In tears as they walked through the village of Baysariyeh, the mourners gathered to remember Khalil, the ninth journalist killed in Lebanon this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Joan Whyte, who had stopped to watch as a large crowd of mourners followed the coffin from the church, said when she saw the crowd she thought the funeral was of "someone very important".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

But I stay behind the tree till the mourners leave and the grave diggers fill in the grave.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt