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embalmer

noun

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as in undertaker

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Recent Examples of embalmer Johanna Morgan became a full funeral director and embalmer in 1998. — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026 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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This one stars Cox himself as a mysterious and formidable old man in an undertaker’s suit and parson’s hat who wanders into an Arizona border town in 1890 to gather the names of dead Mexican laborers.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
This entails handing out thousands of patronage jobs to rabbis, bureaucrats, undertakers, and inspectors.

— Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

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