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
Traditional lineage tools are reactive, built for postmortems rather than innovation.
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Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postmortems
autopsies
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In a cemetery shed, the doctors performed more than three thousand autopsies, which revealed that starvation softened the bones and atrophied vital organs.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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Israel is conducting autopsies on the bodies that have returned.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Postmortems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postmortems. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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