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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

We had assembled to condole with a martyr.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

You, dear John, seem the only fitting person for me to condole with, for you will miss him most tremendously.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

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 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

He has lived there three years reflecting over this; the Countess occasionally condoles with him over the draught of that chimney.'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

Bembo, Cardinal, 31; eulogizes Alexander VI, 100; condoles Lucretia on Alexander's death, 291; dedicates his Asolani to Lucretia, 305, 306, 340.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand

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

The President condoled with them, thanked them for their public spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were people who condoled with him, and offered to lend him sums of money—not large, but very useful to a starving man, one would have thought.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

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

One or two maidens I had seen rowing on the river showed blistered hands to condoling cavaliers.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams




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