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litany

[lit-n-ee] / ˈlɪt n i /


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Chip company Arm, Flutter and fintech Wise are among a litany of companies to ditch primary listings in London to move across the Atlantic in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 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

Despite that, Neymar's litany of physical issues in recent times means expectations of him are not what they once were.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

In this litany, it was somehow very clear that these jobs, they were the exceptions, and that “service” had mostly been of another kind.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

The emails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation.

From Seattle Times Dec. 8, 2021

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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