tragedy
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In addition to Harry and Meghan’s self-demotion, Buckingham Palace faced tragedy and additional criticism in the following years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
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
Stories of loss and tragedy, and how people overcome losses and tragedies.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
It writes that campaigners for water safety, made up of bereaved families, are sounding the alarm of "open water swimming" amid "40 water-related tragedies this summer".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
At the retreat, no one was writing timeless concertos or the world’s greatest tragedies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Coriolanus” has never been one of Shakespeare’s more popular tragedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing tragedy
Ancient Greece - Introductory
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