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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

The rat râjâ entered first to condole with his protector on his misfortune.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote

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

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

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

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Walter Runciman

Imagining nothing idler than words in the face of grave events, he condoles and congratulates with the genteelest air in the world.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

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

If he has, then," said Sam Larkins, who heard some of these condoling remarks, "it's the first time in his life, I can tell you.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner




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