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Gather information from friends, colleagues and social media profiles, and start to build a profile.—
Rupal Patel,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But there’s something these obituaries are missing, writes Zach Utz, the former archivist of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH.—
O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
15 May 2026
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The children have since been identified in online obituaries as 5-year-old Tobias Ya'Shan Lee Huff, 3-year-old Da'Liyla Lelona Huff and 5-month-old Amirah Al-Mansouri.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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Professional commentators tended to see these developments in so many local terms—turning, for their explanations, to national histories, cultures and institutions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Sombreness has seldom looked more suave or felt more disciplined; the storytelling is astounding in its concision, sometimes to a fault, as the characters’ rich personal histories are elided.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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“Character sketches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/character%20sketches. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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