tombstone

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Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

Unlike the vast majority of his predecessors, he will not be buried in St Peter's, but in a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in central Rome, beneath a tombstone inscribed only with his name.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025

They'll just put "American Psycho," the Huey Lewis scene, his business card scene or whatever on my tombstone, and you have to kind of accept it.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2025

First observation: the tombstone was old and worn.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben