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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obituaries
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Fester and Wednesday discover that LOIS was a set of experiments Willow Hill was performing on Outcasts whose obituaries were faked.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Reporters write obituaries remembering youngsters who had just begun to live.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Obits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obits. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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