as in autopsies
examination of a dead body especially to find out the cause of death
the postmortem revealed that the cause of death had been an undetected heart defect
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Recent Examples of postmortems
Maybe 1,000 listeners tuned in for the fall Sunday postmortems.
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Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Traditional lineage tools are reactive, built for postmortems rather than innovation.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Traditional lineage tools are reactive, built for postmortems rather than innovation.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postmortems
autopsies
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Bizzell added that the state medical examiner's office was conducting autopsies to determine how the children died.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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There were autopsies, but no answers.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Postmortems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postmortems. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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