grieve
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Rather than grieve these losses, Prince moved on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
In a statement to the BBC's US partner, CBS News, Seaver's attorneys said he was "grateful to put this misunderstanding behind him so that the family can grieve peacefully".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
You can grieve the loss of your childhood home without assigning blame.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
We didn’t have time to grieve before legal battles began.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
At community meetings, she grieves with locals, alternating between tears and blunt talk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
Lourdes grieves for these victims as if they were beloved relatives.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
The soap followed her as she grieved and began to navigate life as a single mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 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 also grieved for the moments he would not be able to share with his parents in the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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
As hard as he tried not to, as deeply as it grieved him, he had to cancel several long-scheduled appearances at big-city rallies.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Isabelle may be grieving, but there are bills to pay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Green that a grieving mother could bring a Bivens lawsuit against federal prison officials whose deliberate indifference to her son’s asthma attack caused his death.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2026
People do things when they are sad and grieving.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the "whole of Spain is grieving", adding that "lives have been shattered, families have been torn apart, the pain is immense".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
They moved like a silent grieving army, and all who saw them drew back in fear and awe at the looks on their leonine faces.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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