inscription

as in epitaph
something said or written about someone to remember their life The inscription on the urn read "Loving Father, Husband, and Brother."

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Recent Examples of inscription The 1986 kit featured the first England shirts to have a tournament inscription woven in blue thread under the Three Lions crest. Asif Burhan, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025 Several Aruban grottoes and rock-shelters yielded inscriptions and pictographs to the explorer, who considers their style as related to the pictography of the Orinoco and Apure countries. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 July 2025 Other available services: $29.95 for a personal one-on-one photo, $20 for an inscription and $10 for James Spence Authentication. Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 19 June 2025 Archaeologists also found various inscriptions, which Al-Rawahneh said were linked to ancient funerary practices. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for inscription
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epitaph
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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
  • The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.
    TIME Staff, Time, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Inscription.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inscription. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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