tragedy
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"Sadly, we're only seeing the beginning of this tragedy," spokesman Ricardo Pires told reporters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Mladić struggled to come to terms with her suicide, preferring wild conspiracy theories which blamed the tragedy on everyone but himself.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Even so, the larger emotional arc of family ties, with all their tragedy and imperfection, lifts “Whisper Man” from the typical confines of serial-killer drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Financial planning has typically treated a long life as a blessing and an early death as the tragedy to guard against.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
One wrong formula on their part—or one inaccurate piece of data provided to me or one mistaken calculation by me—could mean a disaster for the astronaut and a tragedy for his family.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
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
My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn’t begin to express in their fragile English.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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