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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

The women who came to condole with me on my losses accused these men of being the thieves, but it was younger feet which clattered away from my tent.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

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

Mr. Vernor condoles with me handsomely, and lets me know that the young lady’s attitude has been a great shock to his nerves. 

From Eugene Pickering by Henry James

She then describes her lover's brave deeds, and sad but heroic death, alone in a howling wilderness; condoles with the bereaved parents, exhorts them to resignation, and touches modestly on her own sorrow.

From A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America by Francis Parkman

Indeed, children who have hurt themselves often cry, not at the pain, but at the thought of the pain which is awakened when some one condoles with them.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

I would rather be condoled with than scoffed at any day; and see! by Jove, they're laughing still.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

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

No, they're inside the cottage, condoling with Mrs. Barker over her rheumatism.

From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Angela Brazil




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