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mourn

[mawrn, mohrn] / mɔrn, moʊrn /


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So, as some mourn the "end of an era", they're also nervously waiting to see if he can stick the landing second time around.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

“The loss of a child is a price no parent should pay, and we mourn the tragic loss of Benson along with everyone who loved him,” Spitzer said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Dozens of people gathered on Friday outside the school to mourn the children who were killed in the collapse, which officials blamed on dilapidated infrastructure.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

He started toward Yossarian on tiptoe to mourn beside him and share his wordless grief.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“The defense recognizes and mourns the loss of a young life,” she said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The process Ms. Van Erem mourns is the one that never worked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Rousseau added that she mourns the loss of convenience of being able to drive and spend time in the US, which can be much cheaper to visit than most overseas destinations due to sheer proximity.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

The Yellow City mourns its noble son Yurkhaz zo Yunzak, who perished cruelly whilst a guest of Meereen.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

I noted Mamdani’s explanation that the vigil had mourned both Israeli and Palestinian deaths.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Rajput mourned her death in an Instagram story.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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

Aipa’s death has been widely mourned in Hawaii, where his family is from, and in Huntington Beach where he lived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

So she sat beside Mammy and dutifully mourned Ahmad and Noor, but, in Laila’s heart, her true brother was alive and well.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

The death of Argentina's favorite son plunged the country into mourning in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ team is mourning the loss of former music composer Lucian Piane, who died Monday after he was struck by a car in Glendale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The team behind “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is mourning the loss of Lucian Piane, a former music producer for the Emmy-winning competition series, who died Monday after he was struck by a vehicle in Glendale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

His death triggered widespread mourning and experts say it left a leadership void in the group's image with the public.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

A pair of mourning doves hunted for food near a shaggy boxwood hedge, cooing to each other in their soft melancholy voices.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn


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