gravedigger
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The banter between Hamlet and the gravedigger allows for the kind of witty wordplay that is Izzard’s stand-up stock-in-trade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
At noon on Sunday, Amotz Bazar, the kibbutz gravedigger, pulled up the driveway to the cemetery in Nir Oz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
And in the following month, when asked about the mounting death toll, he replied simply: "I'm not a gravedigger" - a remark he later admitted regretting.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
“We used to do one or two funerals a month. Now, we’re short-handed,” said Mikhailo, a gravedigger who buries many of the dead that Antoniy prepares for burial.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022
Now that I heard his voice, I knew who he was—the first gravedigger in the play.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
One relates the tale of her gravediggers, who carry the secret of her true burial place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In a secluded area of La Esperanza cemetery in La Guaira, gravediggers buried more than 150 bodies still unidentified since the earthquakes, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
A call went out on social media on Tuesday to see if anyone knew any gravediggers.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
On Monday afternoon, half a dozen gravediggers took a break in the shade, waiting for the latest coffin to inter at the cemetery, called Lychakiv.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Most were attached to labor battalions, as cooks and stevedores, laborers and gravediggers.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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