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CORONER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
Synonyms:
coroner; medical examiner
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coroner" is a kind of...):
investigator (someone who investigates)
Context examples:
Those are the main facts of the case as they came out before the coroner and the police-court.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner’s jury.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Both you and the coroner have been at some pains, said he, to single out the very strongest points in the young man’s favour.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I see, said I as I glanced down the column, that the coroner in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She showed a surprising amount of character about it too—looked at the coroner with determined eyes under that corrected brow of hers and swore that her sister had never seen Gatsby, that her sister was completely happy with her husband, that her sister had been into no mischief whatever.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
