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litany

[lit-n-ee] / ˈlɪt n i /


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Regulation that becomes a box-checking litany can cause companies to relax safeguards if they think it protects them from liability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

"We say the timeline contains a litany of unnoticed red flags, missed opportunities and individual and systemic failures," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

A week before that Slate report, he had fired his chief strategist for a litany of troubles.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

The situation in Colombia is all-hands-on-deck and a litany of organizations worldwide are rallying together to get aid to earthquake victims.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The president of the club, Dr. Edward Lasker, welcomed everyone, thanked them for coming, and then began a litany of Bobby’s many accomplishments.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

LeBlanc never moves her camera away from the ground level; there are no policy prescriptions, no litanies of statistics and no melodramatic statements about pity or persistence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

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

Let those cramming for the wine exam recite such litanies of facts.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020

Whether there was any truth to Boori Ma’s litanies no one could be sure.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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