lamentation
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Take all this lamentation with a grain of salt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Zion Church, coaches her to experience the truth of the mother’s lamentation scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
"There is this sentence from the bible, from David's lamentation, saying 'How heroes fell'. And actually, the question now turns to instead of 'How heroes fell?', to 'For what?'," 63-year-old lawyer David Gilat told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2023
Despite being billed as an opera, “Russia: Today” has no apparent plot; instead, the material is framed as an hourlong Orthodox memorial service, moving from opening prayers through lamentation to a kind of peace.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Often they heard nearby Elvish voices singing, and knew that they were making songs of lamentation for his fall, for they caught his name among the sweet sad words that they could not understand.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing lamentation
Animal Farm
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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The Jungle
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