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cry

[krahy] / kraɪ /




VERB
formally announce to others
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If you’ve ever hidden how sick you are, then remission can turn you into the boy who didn’t cry wolf.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

“If the audience doesn’t like your people, they won’t laugh at them and they won’t cry with them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Her feisty turn in “Ghostlight” is a far cry from mousy Minnie, who tamps down her disappointments and desires for the sake of others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

"Because every job since then, even the bad ones, are not that bad," he says, adding that he can "cry anywhere now".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

I didn’t cry when she was lowered into the hard, frozen earth.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Marq Evans: That’s how I’d want to tell a story, as a human interest piece, to have laughs and cries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

She argued that granting permission for the first time in 28 years for the parade to go ahead "cries out for explanation".

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Thankfully, there are often other cues as to the whereabouts of your fleshy foes, such as flickering lights and their awful, gurgling cries.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

A few of their cries could be heard above the seagulls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

There were enough hugs and glad tears and cries of “Who would believe it?” and “Did you ever?” to bring a hundred sentimental West End plays to a happy end.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

During Andrews’s election night victory speech, Stewart said she cried.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

He was touched when the vet cried with him over the passing of his marmalade cat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

I cried in the car in the driveway before I could go inside.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

When a security guard told them to stop, one man cried: "I love you, Bukangi!"

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

“Now, there she goes again, Mama,” I cried, “laughing and making fun of me. Why don’t you make her stop?”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Last week players were crying in the middle of their first-round Southern Section Division 2 playoff win.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Her magnetic personality is also the reason for the USC women’s program renaissance, filling the previously vacant Galen Center with enthusiastic crowds and young girls crying when she gives autographs and selfies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

"You could hear that he was crying on the telephone because it had worked and his neck movement had stopped," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

Four years later, I was doubled over in the back of a New York City taxi sweating and crying with pain in my lower right side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The crying kits would have worked better for an itch, but Clare didn’t bother saying it.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman


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