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litany

[lit-n-ee] / ˈlɪt n i /


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While Mexico and other Latin American countries traditionally celebrate on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, a litany of Día de los Muertos festivities fill up the Southern California calendar beginning in early October.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

A litany of problems for the Rams have led them to so drastically underperform expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

O'Lali, 28, of Breton Court in Lisburn, was sentenced to two years and seven months in relation to what the judge described in court as a "shameful litany of events".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

He then broke into a low, primordial litany.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

These are the kinds of litanies I use, to compose myself.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood


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