lament for
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And while “Marce Catlett” is in many ways a lament for an “oldfangled” lifestyle that now persists only in stories, it arrives at another of this author’s favorite words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Both as a protest song and a lament for human nature, it was a powerful way to end a peerless set.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025
He offers a lament for an Indigenous people historically persecuted in their own land.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
In a lament for Bookforum’s earlier closure, former Times books editor and Bookforum contributor David L. Ulin called the journal “edgy, opinionated, willing to be provocative” and a reminder that “literature is a collective soul.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
We answered with a cry of our own, both a victory yell and a lament, for everything lost and yet to be gained.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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