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obits

noun

plural of obit

as in obituaries

a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account she reads the obits as soon as she gets her morning paper

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Recent Examples of obits These 200-word vignettes with thumbnail photographs weren’t standard obits or news stories. — Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026 The Lionel Messi World Cup obits were starting to be written. — Sean Gregory, Time, 7 July 2026 Dad’s story was understandably relegated to the D-section alongside the obits of a theater producer and a union labor attorney. — Griffin Dunne, Vulture, 19 June 2026 A lot of obits have been written the past few weeks. — ABC News, 5 May 2026 Alas, hip-hop had lost its former glory, read the premature obits. — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025

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obituaries

Noun

That blow came a little less than a year after the New York Times shook up its culture desk and reassigned its classical music critic, Zachary Woolfe, to serve as the obituaries editor.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Roberts, who has written more than sixteen hundred obituaries, retraces the origins of the form (in ancient Rome) and the emergence of the modern newspaper obituary (in the eighteenth century).

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026