the deceased
noun
formal
: a dead person or dead people
a relative of the deceased
Three of the deceased are being buried today.
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Authorities had notified the child's next of kin but did not name the deceased in the release.
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Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2025
Season 7 ended in January 2025 with the bombshell that the deceased Jane's (Silvia Presente) younger sister Fanny (Florrie Wilkinson) may actually be Jamie and Claire's daughter, Faith, whom the couple believed to have died shortly after birth in Paris.
—Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
But society friends Dinah (Leslie Bibb) and Evelyn (Allison Janney) — along with Ann (Mindy Cohn), as Palm Beach’s resident reporter — quickly discovered at the morgue that the deceased is not Maxine.
—Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 25 Dec. 2025
Police did not release any further details on the incident, including an alleged motive or the name of the deceased suspect.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2025
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Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2025
Season 7 ended in January 2025 with the bombshell that the deceased Jane's (Silvia Presente) younger sister Fanny (Florrie Wilkinson) may actually be Jamie and Claire's daughter, Faith, whom the couple believed to have died shortly after birth in Paris.
—Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
But society friends Dinah (Leslie Bibb) and Evelyn (Allison Janney) — along with Ann (Mindy Cohn), as Palm Beach’s resident reporter — quickly discovered at the morgue that the deceased is not Maxine.
—Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 25 Dec. 2025
Police did not release any further details on the incident, including an alleged motive or the name of the deceased suspect.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the deceased
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“The deceased.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20deceased. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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