litany
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Arasha enjoys a few choice manipulative moves in her litany of parts, reversing situations that seem to have no obvious good outcome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
It is the latest in a litany of disasters to befall one of the most benighted industrial cities in Europe, repeatedly blanketed in lethal smoke from similar blazes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The spectators who stuck around, including Josh Levin, were “treated to a litany of scenes you don’t typically see at a Grand Slam tennis match.”
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 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
When he came back on, he was quick and curt and aggressive, and rattled off a litany of questions.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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
These are the kinds of litanies I use, to compose myself.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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