litany
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She had suffered a "substantial" miscarriage of justice, they said, alleging a litany of irregularities and the misuse of evidence during the trial.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips told the BBC there had been a "litany of failures".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The FDA reviewers cited a litany of dubious reasons why the outside experts shouldn’t trust the trial results, as we described in a recent editorial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The president started his speech with a litany of boasts.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Through the tunnels of that island fortress came wind of a horror too great to speak aloud—a whispered litany that would take years to be fully disclosed to the world, and especially to me.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Because these kinds of litanies are not rare, I get why actor, writer, and producer Issa Rae, the woman behind "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," is over it.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023
The emails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
Let those cramming for the wine exam recite such litanies of facts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
Reports from the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia became litanies of broken records: Temperatures in the Arctic region of Arkhangelsk were a staggering 14.4 degrees Fahrenheit above normal in December.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2020
Whether there was any truth to Boori Ma’s litanies no one could be sure.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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