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mourn

[mawrn, mohrn] / mɔrn, moʊrn /


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Among them, “the lasting myth” that Clara “did not mourn her husband, and instead was an adulteress who destroyed scandalous love letters to the young man who was daily at her house.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"My thoughts are with all of George's family and loved ones as we mourn his passing."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed posted on Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years after the attack.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

As we mourn the dead from 9/11 on the 25th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack to ever take place on American soil, we have to consider if he succeeded.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

There aren’t many pieces to my past, so I have to mourn at least a little when one falls away.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

“The Motown family mourns the passing of a true icon, Rosalind Ashford,” read the statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Argentine Football Association said it "deeply mourns with sadness and sorrow the passing of Jorge Messi, father of our captain and emblem, Lionel Messi".

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

“The noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor,” he mourns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

And in “Bliss,” she mourns a relationship that could have been: “What hurts the most /Is we almost had it for a moment.”

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

"The only puzzle is what you might have offered for his allegiance. The prince is a sentimental man, and he still mourns his sister Elia and her sweet babe."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

In a Facebook post, football coach Vince Carter mourned his player, writing that Brown “was around the wrong crowd and was getting misled and misguided,” adding, “it hurts to see this is how it ended.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Sand’s passing was mourned by artists and writers—many of them friends—around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Graham as one of Israel’s strongest friends in Washington and mourned the loss of a close personal friend.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

The family of a British teenager who died in Greece has mourned a "deeply loved son".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Ugwu leaned against the tree and mourned the time he had spent thinking of seeing Nnesinachi.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Parton died last month at the age of 80, plunging her fans into mourning for a singer-songwriter, philanthropist and businesswoman whom many saw as a unifying figure in a divided America.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

"Words spoken in grief can cause pain, division and conflict. It can even destroy the legacy of the king we are mourning," he told mourners.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Dad is in perpetual mourning for a son who died in the first Gulf War and considers John, in comparison, a milquetoasty pencil pusher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

After my cat died, I was in mourning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Then he told the crowd that he had already contacted the White House for permission to fly the United States flag at half-staff for a period of mourning.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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