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grief

[greef] / grif /


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She’s been through a lot of grief, and I admire her resilience.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Konyaks are no longer an exotic remnant of the past, but people living through what Dr Konyak describes as "love, grief, conflict, faith, uncertainty and generational change".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Instead of confronting the grief head-on, Mr. Wladyka takes a more oblique approach, delving into Ha-Chan’s rich imagination to show her, for example, picturing herself floating weightless during a dance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Your wife and her siblings are the “primary grievers,” says Joanne Cacciatore, a professor at Arizona State University who researches traumatic grief.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

“I didn’t have to face my grief, like Asase said?”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

There are griefs other than antisemitism and racism, she complains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

The tension can be felt in private conversations and encounters — the griefs, the anxieties, the feelings of being in a media fishbowl.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 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

I could not forget that only the week before I had been touched by her childish griefs.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

I can only say how sincerely I ask pardon for having griefed you.

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

Fake news and misinformation are part of that, as are the traditional griefing techniques of subcultural trolls.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 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

The practice of ruining things for others, originally known as griefing in the online gaming world, has become a sadly abundant element of internet life.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2016

This notifies our mod team, who will examine the player's behaviour for signs of intentional griefing.

From Nature ● May 17, 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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