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embalmer

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as in undertaker

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Recent Examples of embalmer 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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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
The post-credits scene begins in the mortuary where Will’s funeral was held, when an undertaker and her daughter walk by shelves of urns containing deceased people’s ashes that weren’t picked up by families.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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