cried
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Spencer writes that William said of his childhood: “I sadly remember most of the time that she ever cried about anything, it was to do with press intrusion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I dropped the phone, dropped to my knees and cried.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"I cried my eyes out because I thought, 'this is going to change my life'."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Then, on Tuesday, I got a photo of her in a hospital bed, and I cried because I guess I hadn’t realized she could get thinner.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“Now, Mama,” I cried, “there she goes again, and you won’t say a word to her. You better make her stop. If I laughed at her, you’d jump all over me.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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