grief
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You’re dealing with a lot: the potential loss of your brother and the collective and personal grief if he dies before your aging father, in addition to the financial responsibility of managing this $600,000 trust.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
It might be grief, or divorce, or a thyroid, or none of my business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I lived in a fog of grief and shock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Chef’s Table” showed me that food could be a lens through which to understand culture, grief, resilience, identity, and community.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
It’s not that grief ever gets smaller, it’s that life gets bigger around it.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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There are griefs other than antisemitism and racism, she complains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The conversation ranges from what people think constitutes “a good death” to griefs they carry: old and new, individual and collective.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
This might be dramatised fiction but the losses and griefs are very real.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
“Even in WandaVision — really all of the films I’ve gotten to do — she’s constantly straddling this line and usually her biggest emotive losses or griefs are when something’s born,” Olsen said.
From The Verge ● May 9, 2022
Now events were running away with them, trampling over her personal griefs, her budding hopes, her sprouting wings.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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I can only say how sincerely I ask pardon for having griefed you.
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père, Alexandre
Fake news and misinformation are part of that, as are the traditional griefing techniques of subcultural trolls.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016
“Folks who are griefing or trolling feel like they are in a secondary universe that isn’t the same as the real world,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2016
In a blog post after Tay’s griefing, Peter Lee, the vice president of Microsoft Research, vowed to “work toward contributing to an internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2016
Although Lin's efforts are “admirable and likely industry-leading”, the representative says, many games are still “awash with verbal harassment, griefing and overall negative behaviour from teammates and opponents”.
From Nature ● Mar. 29, 2016
And so their griefing of other players is not necessarily done out of meanness, but more out of a sense of exploration, a way of finding their footing in an uncertain new universe.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2013
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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