Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring or done after death.
- adjective Of or relating to a medical examination of a dead body.
- noun Informal An analysis or review of a finished event.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
post mortem .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The show has never held appeal for me before, however, so I can only imagine that once the election and the immediate postmortem is over, it will be relegated back to "not my thing" status.
Ubi kittenpie 2008
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The show has never held appeal for me before, however, so I can only imagine that once the election and the immediate postmortem is over, it will be relegated back to "not my thing" status.
Archive 2008-11-01 kittenpie 2008
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In particular, he argues that the Afterlife is a condition to which we ought to aspire, that it is a moral improvement even on the life of virtue in this world, and that recognizing this is constitutive of wanting to do what God wants, that is, to live according to the Golden Rule, which guarantees as much as anything can (pending divine grace) our long-term postmortem happiness.
Peter Abelard King, Peter 2004
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In the "postmortem" - an epilogue that follows each episode-to episode 3 of season 3, Adolf Hitler is shown planning to use werewolves as a last line of defense for his crumbling regime.
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One of the discussions in the postmortem was the reflection on how ‘democracy’ as conceived by Bush and the neocon gang was both flimsily conceived and counter-productive.
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I have to wonder about this if I want to make sense of the idea of postmortem society.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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I have to wonder about this if I want to make sense of the idea of postmortem society.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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I have to wonder about this if I want to make sense of the idea of postmortem society.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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The SAP said they had been unable to trace the man's relatives to inform them of his death and the postmortem, which is to be held at a date still to be arranged with Prof J H Olivier, chief state pathologist for the Orange Free State.
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In Texas, the conference call postmortem fell to Jon Daniels, the Rangers' general manager;
NYT > Home Page By JAY SCHREIBER 2010
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