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decedent

noun

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US, law a dead person a tax on the estate of the decedent

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Recent Examples of decedent The medical examiner’s office had been notified by Illinois and Chicago officials of decedents being improperly stored, the Cook County government news release said. — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026 Does the location, position, posture and state of the decedent and the people who reported the death make sense? — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 25 July 2026 The identities of the two decedents and their causes of death will be released by the medical examiner’s office. — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 17 July 2026 The cost of those reports will increase from $17 to $28 each, but one free copy will still be provided to a decedent’s next of kin. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for decedent

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GEDMatch is one of the databases used by the DNA Doe project, a non-profit that works to name the deceased who remain unidentified.

— Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2018

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