condole
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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
We had assembled to condole with a martyr.
From Time Magazine Archive
She played golf with him;, was always around to congratulate him or condole over his score.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not condole merely, but rejoices with him.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
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
What! perhaps he condoles with me, does he?
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
She condoles with the saleswoman upon her hard lot and lack of pleasure, and in the rôle of a kindly, prosperous matron invites her to come to her own home for a good time.
From A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams
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
She never likes to be condoled with and pitied, you know.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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
My dear Professor, instead of condemning your wife you ought to be condoling with her, and doing all you can to get her gray matter into a healthy condition.
From Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts by Henry Arthur Jones
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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