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eulogy

[yoo-luh-jee] / ˈju lə dʒi /


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Edwin Austin, of the British military police, gives a brief but fitting eulogy: “Let the worm go to the worms.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

He’d had the eulogy he wrote for her in his pocket, and he decided to read it to her once alone, without the crowds and cameras.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Reverend Canon Justin Davies delivered a eulogy written by Tyler's family, which reflected on her early life growing up in a four-bedroom council house in Skewen with her parents and siblings.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Yet the movie isn’t simply a eulogy, or an outpouring of sorrow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

I checked everywhere: under the chairs, around the lectern I’d stood behind while delivering my eulogy, under the treat table, on the bulletin board packed with Sunday school kids’ drawings of God’s love.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Nearby to the training booths, other stations offered tea, psychological counselling services and medical support, while loudspeakers broadcast speeches, chants, and eulogies for slain military commanders.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

Hull’s homage to Spirit was seen by more than 1 million people on the Points Guy’s Instagram account — and hundreds of commenters shared their own impromptu eulogies.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, too, warned against writing any eulogies: “The companies who are seizing the moment, I think have the same opportunity ahead,” he said on the company’s quarterly earnings call Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

Keep a box of tissues close by: I was a blubbering mess two minutes in, when Hanks follows Murray’s cold open with one of the eulogies from Candy’s funeral.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

After a while, I sit at a table near the front of the room, facing the flower-strewn altar that’ll soon be occupied with a fine of people reading their eulogies to my brother.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu


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