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  • noun Plural form of post-mortem.

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Examples

  • Davos and G20 come and go as the post-mortems on the wrecked global economy.

    Obama’s problems could be Brown’s 2009

  • Far from a lightning response, post-mortems suggested the Russian action had begun as a familiar mess, with a traffic jam of tanks blocking the Roki Tunnel.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • By the late 1970s, Linder was already considering her photomontages as creatures of a sort; she has spoken of the process of cutting and splicing as, "performing cultural post-mortems and then reassembling the corpses badly, like a Mary Shelley trying to breathe life into the monster".

    Linder, the artist with the hex factor 2011

  • How many post-mortems of the 2010-11 Miami Heat have you read?

    Four Letters Sports Could Use More Of Jason Gay 2011

  • Election post-mortems should not reinforce public misperceptions about Labour's record.

    Letters: A recovery plan for Labour 2011

  • Look, there's going to be no shortage of post-mortems and hand-wringing after the election on Tuesday.

    Jamie Henn: Greatest Generation 2.0 Jamie Henn 2010

  • Look, there's going to be no shortage of post-mortems and hand-wringing after the election on Tuesday.

    Jamie Henn: Greatest Generation 2.0 Jamie Henn 2010

  • I did meet the graphics and computer people who were all based in a large marquee constructed in the BBC's back yard, which was also where the production team held brief post-mortems on both days of rehearsals.

    Linkspam for 7-5-2010 ias 2010

  • Look, there's going to be no shortage of post-mortems and hand-wringing after the election on Tuesday.

    Jamie Henn: Greatest Generation 2.0 Jamie Henn 2010

  • Far from a lightning response, post-mortems suggested the Russian action had begun as a familiar mess, with a traffic jam of tanks blocking the Roki Tunnel.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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