cry
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Thinking the interviewer was being funny, Chas replied that he didn't cry.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Be warned when you buy your ticket: You’re gonna cry now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
But by allowing herself to cry on camera, Sanders-Townsend broadcast a different kind of signal.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
“I remember the eventual cry that I had about the Olivia tour, just being like, ‘This is different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Archie started to cry, and Mard bounced and rocked him.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
In another video from last year, she cries when she discovers that $9,000 had been cut from her balance, so that she “only” owed $6,700.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
A survivor who was hauled to safety on a rescue boat had described the frantic cries on board the passenger-cargo vessel when the fire erupted on Wednesday evening.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
An elephant seal cries out at the sight of a photographer 2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The others joined him with cries of alarm.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
"Her last assistant had cried – too often, I guess? – and she wanted someone who didn't cry. So she was being serious and I thought it was a joke," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
She cried because she found the tiny bird so sad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
He has previously spoken of how he inherited players that cried after matches and lost all confidence - and believed his unprecedented control over the summer transfers was vindication for Spurs from last season.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Another woman — Domínguez’s daughter — cried in the hallway as she waited for her mother’s case to get called up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
I made the spirit rap on the chair, and one of the ladies cried out, “I feel the spirit tapping me on the shoulder.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
In one of those climactic courtroom confrontations that have long since become cinematic cliché, Mr. Firstman pulls out the classic move of a desperate actor by crying profusely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Raman even teared up in public, which City Hall insiders have long mocked her for, when crying in the name of trying for a better L.A. is as bold as you can get.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Javier Barrio, whose wife Carmen de Santana had caught the train as one of her final work-related trips before her retirement, said "we are doing what we can, crying."
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
She said: "I was crying uncontrollably. I remember my mum just didn't know what to do and my dad came home from work early. It was a horrible experience."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Oh, for crying out loud. Where are you?”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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