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condole

[kuhn-dohl] / kənˈdoʊl /


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There will be time to collectively mourn, condole and rebuild, when they no longer are, when all communities are safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

I will definitely miss him and I condole with his family, his BBC fans and the BBC family.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2014

Last week Mrs. McGuire, owner of 40 dogs herself, hurried to Long Island to condole with Poopchin and the Pekes.

From Time Magazine Archive

She played golf with him;, was always around to congratulate him or condole over his score.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before a stranger, I would not betray her incognito; but to you, it seems to me that I may safely tell where she is, so that you can go there and condole with her.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Charles Paul de Kock

Her team listens, condoles with the families and tries to humanise the situation.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

In his best vestryman's voice, T. S. Eliot restates his cultured disenchantment with the wartime world and condoles with humanity, shivering in "the cold wind That blows before and after time."

From Time Magazine Archive

While the billow mournful rolls, And the mermaid's song condoles, Singing glory to the souls Of the brave!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

It hereby condoles with Crofter in the jolly back seat he has got to take, and is sorry he shirked the Mile.

From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed

He spoke no longer as one who greets an intruder, but as one who condoles with a friend.

From The Red Room by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Marcos Jr. visited Ramos’ wake Thursday and condoled with the family of Ramos, who, he said, “was a symbol of stability after all the tumultuous events of 1986.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

They condoled with her for the hate mail.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2019

"Mr. American, how come you haven't even condoled?"

From US News ● Oct. 22, 2014

Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common."

From Time Magazine Archive

No sooner does he leave the herd, however, than he is chased, and if he refuses to put back, curses follow him; and the friends whom once he had are condoled with.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman

Lukashenko placed red roses at Makei’s coffin before his burial Tuesday and briefly touched the dead man’s arm, gazing at him for a few moments, dry-eyed, before condoling with Makei’s family.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

Now, I’m very sad to be condoling with his family and friends.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020

These days you’ll see that condoling frowny face on nearly TV-news emissary.

From Time ● Oct. 31, 2014

To his headquarters at the Hotel Commodore in New York City had come more than 30,000 letters, in growing volume, most of them not condoling with him but urging him to continue his "crusade."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am pleased to see you so well, dear," he continued, "and I take the opportunity of condoling with you.

From The Grandee by Armando Palacio Valdés


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