embalmer

noun

Definition of embalmernext
as in undertaker

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Recent Examples of embalmer Johanna Morgan's license as a funeral director and embalmer was suspended by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026 Büchi approaches classical music not like an embalmer with a corpse but as a surgeon with a patient, taking a scalpel to the vestigial organs. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
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undertaker
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  • Organizers had distributed the heads among the elite group of undertakers, who were participating in the inaugural Restorative Art Technical Showcase, the highlight event of last year’s National Funeral Directors Association convention.
    — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • Journalists who just a year or two before had reported on the collapse in the grim tones of an undertaker now rushed to write a happy story.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
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