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Obit meaning
The death of a person. | A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. | A record of a person's death.
Synonyms of Obit
Example sentences (15)
One of the main narrative lines of “Obit” is the shaping of Wilson’s obituary, composed by veteran obit writer Bruce Weber.
He’s also been a model of efficient reporting and writing, knocking out an obit on a beloved local resident in a day and a half and doing a quick turnaround that raised questions about closing an RV park for homeless residents in Bayview.
OBIT-ANITA POINTER — Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, died Saturday at the age of 74. SENT: 360 words, photos.
OBIT-NICK GILBERT — Nick Gilbert, son of Cavaliers owner, dies at 26. SENT: 320 words, photo.
She was a “bright and passionate learner” who attained a master’s in nursing and nurse practitioner diploma, the obit notes, achieving her goal of becoming a practising health-care provider at the Britt Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic.
That’s the straight obit.
There is a brilliantly snooty aside in this Guardian obit about 1960s Americans seeming “content to live on tuna melt … washed down by Coke”, but that sounds spot-on to HTE.
She ended her obit by urging people around her to appreciate their own lives as well.
A couple days ago, she left an obit on the counter for me.
A full obit will follow.
HUIZENGA-OBIT:FL — H. Wayne Huizenga, whose restless entrepreneurial spirit led him to become the only U.S. businessman to found three Fortune 500 companies, has died.
I moved to the Arkansas Times on the invitation of publisher Alan Leveritt, whom I'd met when he was a relief obit writer at the Gazette in 1973.
Maybe an editor passed for lack of interest, or maybe considered an obit but did not have a reporter available to write it.
They somehow compared his obit to Fidel Castro's, thinking the NYT was more "neutral" to the Cuban dictator.
RealBluesMagazine.com Obit of Curtis Tillmann, who witnessed the death * Graham Greene relates in his first autobiography, A Sort of Life (1971), that he played Russian roulette, alone, a few times as a teenager.