Thesaurus results for EPITAPH

epitaph

noun

as in inscription

something inscribed on a gravestone in memory of a dead person The epitaph reads "In loving memory of John Gray: husband, father, soldier."

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Recent Examples of epitaph This famous epitaph is not real, but commonly repeated. —

Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025 The show goes ahead without her, a close up of the microphone occupying her empty chair, is perhaps her most damning epitaph. —

Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025 Advocates can postulate that, absent the resolve of the United States to fight in Vietnam, even in a losing cause, the Soviet Union and China would have been emboldened to invade and conquer America, Western Europe and Japan, writing an epitaph for freedom. —

Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2025 The veterans slowly walked to the epitaph with the help of service members to pay tribute to their fellow Marines and sailors who perished there. —

Arkansas Online, 30 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for epitaph

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inscription

Noun

Here and in works throughout the show, symbols and inscriptions refer both to gift giver and gift recipient, bridging the distance between Europe and the Holy Land.

— Sarah Kozlowski, Dallas Morning News, 21 Mar. 2026
The inscription would have sent enemies quite an impression as it was burned into the stone with molten lead, as if daring the attackers to continue their useless advance, Live Science continues.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026