farewell
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Since his tearful farewell in 2023 and elevation to pope two years later, Chiclayo has proudly proclaimed itself to be “the city of Papa Leon XIV.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Details of the next series of Gardeners' World will be announced at a later date, the BBC noted in a statement ahead of Don's farewell.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
It was an end-of-relationship song, but in his sense I was overlaying the idea that this could be career-related in some way — he could be getting ready to cut his farewell album or something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Salon: A lot of coverage cited what you said in your farewell message for your last weekend show.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
He spent the whole day on this strange farewell tour, until finally one of his cousins called him out.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
After being asked by King Charles III to form the next government, Burnham, 56, is due to make his first speech Monday outside 10 Downing Street shortly after Starmer has said his farewells.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The aim of her "Farewell video" project, she says, is to help people cope with "unfinished farewells" and give them a chance to "embrace" husbands, parents and children again.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
It is also a time of farewells, when school graduates leave their hometown while many corporate professionals receive assignments in new cities.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
After hugs and farewells, they walk back out into the night, still unnoticed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
As the train coughed, lurched, and began to pull away, boys hanging from the windows shouted farewells: “Good-bye, Mom!”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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