decedent
noun
a deceased person.
decedents
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pluralof decedent.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He and the other three decedents were Mexican nationals, prompting the Mexican government to demand an immediate review of the facility, pointing to “serious omissions and evident deficiencies” in medical care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
The federal law sets up a process for museums and federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items, including funerary and sacred objects, to tribes and direct decedents of the people they belonged to.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024
The other new paper, published in Nature Medicine, featured a "multiomics" analysis of pig hearts and surrounding human cells in decedents.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
All decedents located at the Colorado funeral home were removed on 13 October and transported to the El Paso County Coroner's Office.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
Surprisingly, however, a random sample of 747 death notices published in Salt Lake City, Utah, newspapers during 1977 indicated that 46 percent of the decedents surveyed died within the three- month period following their birthdays.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
