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undertaker

[uhn-der-tey-ker, uhn-der-tey-ker] / ˈʌn dərˌteɪ kər, ˌʌn dərˈteɪ kər /
NOUN
funeral director
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A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

“I had so much metal inside me, I thought I wouldn’t need a burial when I died—the undertaker could just pop me in the recycling bin,” he quips in “Last Rites.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

"In the next day's paper, there was an article on how CalMac had loaded the wrong coffin onto the vessel - no mention of the undertaker," he recalled.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024

Callum Flannelly is a painfully shy undertaker in Ireland who will be disinherited if he doesn’t marry by the time he’s 35.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

According to undertaker, “The position of the body indicated that he had fallen in that position and had not been carried there.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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