grieve
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As for those who grieve them, “they understand why all this happened.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Sara and I grieve with the American people over the loss of our dear friend, Senator Lindsey Graham.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
"I feel like I'm not going to be able to grieve properly."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But permit me, as a lifelong MMA fan, to grieve a bit for my favorite sport: the only one I’ve ever truly loved.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Club and country team-mate Jamie George says England will rally around captain Maro Itoje as he grieves the death of his mother.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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
What does it look like when a bird grieves?
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
At 19:26 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country grieves alongside the UK at this time.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
“Tell him, please, I long to speak with him....Nay, tell him only that Ophelia grieves with him.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
“Grown-ups gave me positive attention when—as an actor—I failed, got sick, screamed and cried, killed, grieved and suffered,” she wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
They rebuilt their lives, married, and grieved when they lost loved ones of their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
So the family received the body, held a funeral and they grieved.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
The Hobbits were grieved at this parting; for Aragorn had never failed them and he had been their guide through many perils.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
In Torres del Limonar, a Cali residential complex that collapsed in Monday's earthquake, people pick through rubble to recover victims' belongings and return them to grieving families.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Something has happened and I believe in his own way he is going to be grieving and I feel so sad for him,” said North Carolina’s Wendi Cornett.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
You may already be grieving the possibility of loss while your brother is still here and while you are actively helping him through his exhaustive cancer treatment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
She added her new dog had helped her through the grieving process.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
We weren’t people who were grieving, or who needed to be taken care of, or who were to be pitied.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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