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Pyongyang said Monday the situation along the two countries' shared border was "grave" and that it was considering deploying additional "tactical strike means" to the area.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Rush also confessed to providing secrets to a foreign government, which could have caused "grave damage" to national security.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

In a statement, Doha said it was "a grave assault on the sanctity of Islamic holy sites", a violation of Saudi sovereignty and international law.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar praised the pilot's "extraordinary courage and remarkable presence of mind, even in the face of grave danger".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

I went to each grave and stood over it, and called upon the dead, alone there in the dark, to come and give me some token of their presence.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

So far, the war in Iran has put them in even graver danger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

“It’s far graver. Far, far graver now than it was.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

Before I was ever a graver myself, one of my now-comrades in Texas wrote a memorial to a man on Find a Grave.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

Reeling from heartache, Monaco seems to search for meaning and solace in the far graver misfortunes of a friend referred to as “R,” a political prisoner turned asylum seeker and the show’s most revisited subject.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

Knightley immediately got up, and in a manner decidedly graver than usual, said,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

But many questions remain surrounding the events that posed one of the gravest challenges to the regime of General Abdourahamane Tiani, who himself came to power in a July 2023 coup.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Established in 2002, the ICC prosecutes individuals accused of the gravest atrocities, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

From the gravest to the most basic, a set of choices will confront Andy Burnham as soon as he walks through the Downing Street door.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

It follows a landmark UN resolution earlier in March which recognised transatlantic slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity", urging UN member states to contribute to a reparations fund.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

In peacetime, however, in a well-staffed, well-stocked American emergency room, triage isn’t about withholding care from anyone; rather, it’s identifying the patients in the gravest danger and treating them first.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017

Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then on the stone, As she had said, graved Eblis, and thereon Did set his seal.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

The old form of the participle is graven, but graved is also in good use.

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers

He graved it there the very day he bought it from me.”

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

The difference here is that Jackson’s intended audience—which, again, includes the vast majority of Americans who do not keep a graven image of Antonin Scalia in their homes—does not take assertions like this seriously anymore.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2024

Those included condemnation of just the sort of graven imagery his son would later master for the Church of Rome and its royal cohorts in Habsburg Spain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.

From The Verge ● Feb. 4, 2019

Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017

This would make it easier to read the message that had been graven underneath the tapestry.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The work of graving will never be finished.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

This graving free-for-all has caused some controversy over the years.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

It’s what sucked me into graving, despite my startling first encounter with Find a Grave.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

"A true letter," she wrote to Clive Bell in 1907, "should be as a film of wax pressed close to the graving in the mind."

From Time Magazine Archive

Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes