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expressing or suggesting mourning
a slow and heavy funeral song
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Recent Examples of funeral
Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Dozens of people were attending a funeral inside at the time.
—Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 30 Dec. 2025
Delaware State Police announced funeral arrangements for Cpl.
—Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Two people are dead and at least six others are injured after a shooting in Salt Lake City Wednesday evening outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while people were gathered for a funeral.
—Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Dozens of people were attending a funeral inside at the time.
—Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
As Shula, Chardy moves through the aftermath of her uncle’s sudden death — discovered on a roadside at night — and the elaborate funeral rituals that follow, where aunties organize, gossip circulates, and everyone seems determined to smooth over the past rather than confront it.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 30 Dec. 2025
Delaware State Police announced funeral arrangements for Cpl.
—Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
Noun
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Flags will remain lowered until Ryan's interment.—
News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2025
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The flag is flown at half-staff from the day of death until interment of a former vice president, according to the Flag Code.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
17 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
David Mamet,
National Review,
11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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This internal struggle is portrayed with raw honesty, focusing on the darker, mournful corners of humanity that inspired the record’s lyrics.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
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Other tracks channel the mournful energy of the most political ’70s dub.—
Andrew Ryce,
Pitchfork,
22 Dec. 2025
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Over the weekend, CNN and other media posted a video of mourners carrying the body of a protester into the Paradise of Zahra for burial.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2026
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The burial will be at Center Cemetery, D2 Dividend Road in Rocky Hill, immediately following the funeral mass.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
12 Jan. 2026
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According to Purina, a common quirky habit many dog owners notice is food-burying.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2025
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Greenlawn was a collection of four cemeteries — the old burying ground, new burying ground or Union cemetery, Peck's Ground and Greenlawn.—
Alexandria Burris,
IndyStar,
14 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Counseling is being provided for our team of athletes who are understandably heartbroken.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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After Anna disappeared, Alice was heartbroken.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
9 Jan. 2026
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City and county governments set local rules covering burials, inurnments, entombments and the upkeep of cemeteries, mausoleums and columbariums, according to state law.—
Angela Rodriguez,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Just as fascinating are Poe’s burial and his reburial 26 years later, an exhumation that adds to his mystique, even if the raw particulars of that reburial do nothing to justify the urban legend of his living entombment.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Sitting opposite an old people’s home in a residential corner of Paris’ 14th arrondissement, La Santé’s unassuming presence is only given away by the occasional wailing siren as prisoners are transported to and from the site.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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