as in inscription
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Noun
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In the vision, Wednesday sees the bird Xavier painted on a gravestone with an inscription of Enid’s name on it.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Twelve designs from the foundation of the collection, each piece is engraved with Latin inscriptions such as amor vincit omnia, ‘love conquers all’ or per aspera ad astra, ‘through hardships to the stars’.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
28 Aug. 2025
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The epitaph for the version of the North Rim Lodge that stood from 1936 to 2025 might well be that humanity will never master the awesome nature that lies outside the picture windows.—
Tom Zoellner,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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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
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“Hic jacet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hic%20jacet. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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