as in undertaker
a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation
the funeral director instructed the pallbearers on how to proceed
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Recent Examples of funeral director
Loved it when your shortstop, who’s as fun as a funeral director, drew a walk the other day and broke into a dead sprint for first.
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Kevin Sherrington
feb. 25, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
Current Oklahoma law requires anyone selling caskets to be a licensed funeral director operating out of a funeral home.
—Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 6 Feb. 2026
The funeral director advised against it.
—Sofie Buckminster, semafor.com, 16 Nov. 2025
For our story, writer Jennifer Byrne talked with funeral director Brienna Smith, the Chief Operating Officer of Return Home Green Funeral Home in Seattle.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
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Kevin Sherrington
feb. 25, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
Current Oklahoma law requires anyone selling caskets to be a licensed funeral director operating out of a funeral home.
—Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 6 Feb. 2026
The funeral director advised against it.
—Sofie Buckminster, semafor.com, 16 Nov. 2025
For our story, writer Jennifer Byrne talked with funeral director Brienna Smith, the Chief Operating Officer of Return Home Green Funeral Home in Seattle.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funeral director
undertaker
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No caveats or asterisks for the team that’s become the NBA’s grave-digging undertaker.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
4 June 2026
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This way to pass the time dates back to the 1880s, just a few years after the phone was invented, and started with an undertaker, of all people, getting called to fetch the dead body of a not-so-dead woman.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Funeral director.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral%20director. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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