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UK
/ˈɒbɪt/
]
[ US /ˈoʊbɪt, oʊˈbɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈoʊbɪt, oʊˈbɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
How To Use obit In A Sentence
- Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
- The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area.
- Clinton almost delivered his own political obituary in droning on far longer than he should have, although by 1992 that was mostly forgotten. Your Right Hand Thief
- He asserted his innocence and his financial probity.
- Most of these networks transmit data at relatively low speeds of 192 kilobits per second or less.
- It is the keenest spur to exertion, and surest of all guards against improbity. Times, Sunday Times
- Every day that passes sees the obituary columns of broadsheet newspapers bring us more examples.
- He would soon be of age, and it was necessary to make some terms to prevent the loss the estate would suffer by raising money on post-obit bonds. Biographical Sketch
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- Blind, totally eyeless trilobites have given us another indication of the range of trilobite habits and habitats.