grieve
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We didn’t have time to grieve before legal battles began.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Her estate work now feels like an extension—and a way to grieve with, and rely on, her sister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Grace's mother, Dr Sinead O'Malley-Kumar, says the end of the inquiry will mark "just the beginning" for her family to grieve.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Twenty-five years after 9/11, we mourn and we grieve what happened, and at the same time, we recognize that I am not responsible for what happened," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I grieve to hear this. All the more reason to free the noble Hizdahr zo Loraq, who stopped such killings once.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
Or when the child has a disability and the parent grieves the vision of the child that they thought they were gonna have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
“I will not abandon Meereen to the fate of Asta- por. It grieves me to say so, but Westeros must wait.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Some think Newton was the friend Dickinson still grieved in “Death sets a Thing significant” a decade later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The family asked for privacy whilst they grieved and supported one another, adding: "We would like to thank everyone for their kindness, support and understanding."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
He also asked for people to give him and his wife, author Bella Mackie, some privacy as they grieved.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“I am profoundly grieved at the loss of my partner and brother,” said attorney John Branca, co-executor of the Michael Jackson estate with McClain.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
He knew his father was grieved, for he swallowed hard and the quiet spells came to him too.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
A grieving father says he felt his son was "discarded" by police after he went missing in floodwater.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
“I will never stop grieving my son, who should be here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Beast In Me follows a grieving author, played by Claire Danes, who becomes obsessed with a mysterious new neighbour suspected of murder.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
My classmates probably just thought the suit was some sort of grieving thing.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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