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Frequency: 5.82.2 per million words

Used when something serves as a final monument or testament to something else (e.g., a career, an era).

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Examples (10)

  • It makes a fitting epitaph to a great career.
  • The documentary serves as a moving epitaph to the legendary singer's life.
  • The crumbling factory is a poignant epitaph to the region's industrial decline.
  • His final speech was a powerful epitaph to an era of political change.
  • The company's closure was a sad epitaph to decades of innovation.
  • Her last collection of poems stands as a beautiful epitaph to her creative spirit.
  • Let this monument be a lasting epitaph to the soldiers who fought for freedom.
  • The abandoned railway line is a silent epitaph to a bygone age of travel.
  • This final, unsuccessful mission was a tragic epitaph to their ambitious space program.
  • The museum's empty halls became an unintended epitaph to the importance of public funding.