post mortem
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Denmark's environmental protection agency will also conduct a post mortem examination on the whale, which was released in the North Sea some distance from Anholt.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
The opening of an inquest into her death at Gwent Coroner's Court heard a post mortem examination had given the provisional cause of death as one of multiple injuries.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
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
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
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