tragedies
Example Sentences
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At the retreat, no one was writing timeless concertos or the world’s greatest tragedies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
"It's an emotional release that I think we are often denied because we have to read tragedies in the news every day and then keep our heads down and work."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
After two and a half centuries of triumphs and tragedies, slavery and freedom, civil war and world wars, multiple surveys indicate a nation divided about where it is and where it's going.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
I thought not only about these two bonobos but of the stream of homeless refugees, of my dead friends in the sanctuary, of the larger and yet-unknown tragedies elsewhere in the country, in the world.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
