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
A lot of obits have been written the past few weeks.
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ABC News, 5 May 2026
Alas, hip-hop had lost its former glory, read the premature obits.
—Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
ABC News, 5 May 2026
Alas, hip-hop had lost its former glory, read the premature obits.
—Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obits
obituaries
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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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“Obits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obits. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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