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expressing or suggesting mourning
a slow and heavy funeral song
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Recent Examples of funeral
Sophie Yeo, The Dial, 4 Nov. 2025
It's not yet known whether Cheney will get a state funeral.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
The family has not yet announced funeral plans, and no further details have been made public.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Earlier this year, Extinction Rebellion staged a mock funeral in Cambridge, England.
—Sophie Yeo, The Dial, 4 Nov. 2025
It's not yet known whether Cheney will get a state funeral.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
On a recent day, a patron drank a Guinness at the bar amid walls are covered in funeral notices from people who had come for a drink after saying that final goodbye.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
The family has not yet announced funeral plans, and no further details have been made public.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral
Noun
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Flags in Minnesota are also currently lowered in honor of former Vice President Dick Cheney and will remain at half-staff until sunset on the day of his interment.—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
7 Nov. 2025
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American flags are ordered to fly at half-staff until sunset on the day of Cheney's interment services, according to the state Department of Military Affairs.—
Cailey Gleeson,
jsonline.com,
6 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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The Fitzgerald's final moments shrouded in mystery, Lightfoot's mournful song, the number of lives lost, and the size of the ship alone led her to quickly become the most famous shipwreck in Michigan.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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The zebras pranced, all frisky energy; the elephants, lumbering and mournful, trailed behind with their ancient thoughts.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Goldin’s parents spent 11 years spearheading a campaign to bring their son home for burial.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty Images An American startup, Deep Isolation Nuclear, is combining the underground burial concept with oil-and-gas fracking techniques.—
Bob Woods,
CNBC,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The few mourners walked away beneath the crooked, treeless oaks and hickories of the Westminster Presbyterian burying ground.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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Researchers say the burying of the hoard is not a mystery, but why the community never came back for their treasured items is another thing entirely.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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As the title suggests, the book details Turner's tale of a heartbroken widower who became an unlikely senior-citizen TV star on the first season of the reality show, which ended with an engagement to Nist.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Nov. 2025
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Thomas told the outlet that her brother’s diagnosis left their family heartbroken.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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 Nov. 2025.
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