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
She played golf with him;, was always around to congratulate him or condole over his score.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had assembled to condole with a martyr.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the whole I condole with our country cousins if they have been allowed to see this strange play very frequently.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various
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
Sancho laments the loss with true pathos, and the knight condoles with him.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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
Mrs. Alexander showed her disappointment at this unexpected action of her charming Count and refused to be condoled by anyone else.
From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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
They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way.
From Time Magazine Archive
The natural privations of such a person elicit in his favor the condoling sympathies of all considerate persons.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
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