grieve
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We didn’t have time to grieve before legal battles began.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Puza said Culver CityBus service will be suspended throughout the weekend to allow the transit agency’s team time to grieve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Later, the two blended poignantly in the opera’s only duet, in which they grieve over their seemingly inevitable fate—they must die together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
They say they have been unable to grieve properly, and that the Probation Service especially "failed" to do its job.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
A week after the killings, blacks in many cities held demonstrations to grieve for their dead, to show communal solidarity, and to vent outrage.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Madonna grieves for her late brother Christopher on Fragile, a delicate song about their childhood, estrangement and reconciliation, that ends with her wishing, "I hope you found a higher ground".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Heaney grieves the violence, memorializing its complexity and horror in a poem that can stand with Yeats and Auden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
At 19:26 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country grieves alongside the UK at this time.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
At community meetings, she grieves with locals, alternating between tears and blunt talk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
It grieves me to think that I have brought shame to the place that has sheltered me, that by my unwitting deeds, St. Emilion might be ruined.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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She grieved his death through art, painting a large oil portrait of him wearing a cowboy hat that she leaned against the wall of her Brooklyn loft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He has also grieved his mother Florence who died in December, speaking at her funeral in Nigeria and, by arrangement with the national team, joined up late with his team-mates before the Six Nations.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
He turned down a chance to coach his country in 2006, believing that the busier fixture list at Wasps would suit him better as he grieved the death of his brother.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
At the First Baptist Church, he said, the Eastlands were trying to be respectful as people grieved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
“Gee, I guess he really is dead,” grieved one of his enlisted men in a low, respectful voice.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Sometime during the second half of 1863, she wrote one of her best poems, “Death sets a Thing significant,” on grieving the dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Last year, she called for Jay's Law to prevent the online trolling of grieving families.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The key thing to understand about Andy Burnham's speech is these were the words and the delivery of both a new prime minister and a grieving son.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Right now, our priority is recovering physically, grieving her, and trying to regain some sense of normalcy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
He knew they were grieving and he was moved by their grief.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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