post mortem

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In the post mortem of the Great Depression: there will always be someone like economist Roger Babson who will be able to say, “I told you so.”

From MarketWatch • Oct. 20, 2025

Her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, was an emotional purge - a stunned post mortem of two bitter, messy break-ups.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

BBC Scotland understands a post mortem examination has yet to taken place as not enough of Mr Wright's body has been found.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

Officers said post mortem examinations would take place in due course and the deaths were being treated as unexplained.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2025

It was clear that any research would be in the nature of a post mortem.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson