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farewell

[fair-wel] / ˌfɛərˈwɛl /
INTERJECTION
goodbye (used to wish well)
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STRONGEST




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By the end of Act 2, when the separated spouses were finally brought together only to face death, their farewell duet was incandescent.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

The theme also dominated his six-minute farewell video timed to release after death.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Jaissle briefly spoke to Guimaraes at the club's training camp in Spain earlier this week, but the 28-year-old went on to bid an emotional farewell to his team-mates and club staff.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

But that would mean saying farewell to daylight during California’s late summer days.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

But it dawns on me now that, in the end, Mother carried every last one of our possessions outside as a farewell gift to Kilanga.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

She has said final farewells to Porter Wagoner and her longtime singing partner, Kenny Rogers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

After the dances, the judges delivered their verdicts - and it was Robshaw and Bychkova who won the majority vote, leaving Skinner and Dowden to say their farewells.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2025

However, it is not good journalism, and not just because the past few months have shown that Musk's farewells mean nothing.

From Salon May 30, 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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