condole
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There will be time to collectively mourn, condole and rebuild, when they no longer are, when all communities are safe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
I will definitely miss him and I condole with his family, his BBC fans and the BBC family.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2014
She played golf with him;, was always around to congratulate him or condole over his score.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week Mrs. McGuire, owner of 40 dogs herself, hurried to Long Island to condole with Poopchin and the Pekes.
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It was this which made her refuse all the entreaties of her sons, that she would see the kind-hearted neighbors, who called on their way from church, to sympathize and condole.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Her team listens, condoles with the families and tries to humanise the situation.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
In his best vestryman's voice, T. S. Eliot restates his cultured disenchantment with the wartime world and condoles with humanity, shivering in "the cold wind That blows before and after time."
From Time Magazine Archive
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He seems at home everywhere; talks politics, guesses your needs, cracks a joke, or condoles with you on your misfortunes with an elongated face.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
And while, for rhymes, I search around the poles, Your eyes are fix'd, as in poetic sleep, Upon the lore so voluble and deep, That aye at fall of night our care condoles.
From Poems 1817 by John Keats
Imagining nothing idler than words in the face of grave events, he condoles and congratulates with the genteelest air in the world.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
Marcos Jr. visited Ramos’ wake Thursday and condoled with the family of Ramos, who, he said, “was a symbol of stability after all the tumultuous events of 1986.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
They condoled with her for the hate mail.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2019
"Mr. American, how come you haven't even condoled?"
From US News ● Oct. 22, 2014
Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common."
From Time Magazine Archive
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He comforted and condoled with the afflicted girl, who certainly did not look in the slightest degree likely to break her heart.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
Lukashenko placed red roses at Makei’s coffin before his burial Tuesday and briefly touched the dead man’s arm, gazing at him for a few moments, dry-eyed, before condoling with Makei’s family.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
Now, I’m very sad to be condoling with his family and friends.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020
These days you’ll see that condoling frowny face on nearly TV-news emissary.
From Time ● Oct. 31, 2014
They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He knew it, too, and again began to find sympathy for himself, condoling and pitying, and telling himself that no man had ever before experienced such suffering as had fallen to his lot.
From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn
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