tragedy
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Independence High School was set to kick off its football season against Kern County rival Centennial High, but game night turned to tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
At Hunter Bookstore, she discovered a wall covered in black sticky notes, where visitors had left messages of encouragement for those affected by the tragedy.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
It’s truly a tragedy when families become casualties of things that, in the long run, may not matter nearly as much as the people involved.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
That email set off a chain of events that led to one of the biggest academic scandals in Cambridge’s recent history and ended in tragedy when Arday was found dead in south London last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
It was years before this tragedy was made public.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Rothko also begins to flirt with Surrealism—which becomes more pronounced in his output as the tragedies of World War II unfolded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
By comparison Uganda has had nine since 2000, with officials there saying lessons learnt from past tragedies have allowed them to stop the disease ripping through the country on various occasions.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
As it marks two-and-a-half centuries of triumphs and tragedies, slavery and freedom, civil war and world wars, surveys show the nation is pessimistic about the chances of realizing the "American Dream."
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
There are many tragedies that could be stopped if only we spoke up more often.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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