litany
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Former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, said on Wednesday that Levy's second murder "could have been avoided had the state not failed" and that the case displayed a "litany of failures".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Buoyed by victories over France and Italy, the All Blacks punished a litany of first-half Irish errors as Patrick Tuipulotu, Ardie Savea, Will Jordan and Asafo Aumua all crossed to secure the bonus point.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The president started his speech with a litany of boasts.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
They have voiced a litany of complaints about the unfairness of El Chapo’s prosecution and requested that he be sent back to Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
“I’m sorry,” he says, repeating it in a litany over her sobs until she calms, the tension easing in her shoulders as she relaxes into his arms.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
The advanced age of many gangsters often becomes a factor at sentencing hearings, when bids for leniency tend to rely heavily on litanies of medications, impairments, illnesses and other ravages of time.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
Because these kinds of litanies are not rare, I get why actor, writer, and producer Issa Rae, the woman behind "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," is over it.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023
And so the Oprah Winfrey-produced, Reginald Hudlin-directed documentary “Sidney” ticks off litanies of both aesthetic and cultural achievements, without ever feeling obligatory.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
Writers have lots of dinners with other writers, and the best conversations are when we share litanies of humiliating moments in our careers, or the single worst things we’ve written.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
These are the kinds of litanies I use, to compose myself.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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