weep
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"We were forced to leave because of the Houthis," she told AFP, adding: "My children are still there -- they couldn't get out. I weep for them every day, waiting for them to escape."
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
For one thing, the actor made viewers weep with his Emmy-winning turn as Bill, a man who found unexpected love in “The Last of Us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
All I wanted then was to sink into a pot of chicken-and-rice stew and weep.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
There is a sense of disbelief in this Sierra Leonean village as people weep in front of the bodies of two teenage boys wrapped in white cloth.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
The poor woman was still so distraught over Pong that she didn’t do much besides weep, anyway.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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Nokwanda weeps as she describes how the family will have to face, at some point, the grim task of telling Dineo's daughter of her death.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Daniela Lopez, 40, weeps as she speaks with the psychologist.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
No college basketball fan weeps for the Blue Devils’ bad luck, but Duke knows better than most that a great regular season doesn’t guarantee a championship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
She misses her daughter, her namesake, and weeps at the sight of school buses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
She weeps in his arms and tells him they can never marry.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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On Wednesday night, protesters in the square wept and embraced each other after learning the news.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
He renders the original’s panoply of suffering in accessible English, as in this view of Satan: “With six eyes / He wept, and three chins let the foul tears fall / And bloody foam.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Fong wept as the unanimous verdicts were read out and hugged family and friends after being released from the dock.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
When Morton heard that Nolan wanted to meet her for “The Odyssey,” she says she wept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
You held me as I wept, loving me as I loved you.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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Another accuser, whose 911 tape was played during opening statements, called emergency services weeping from her job at the Boys and Girls Club in Santa Monica immediately after she’d left Weinberg’s house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Buddha, seeing him bruised, bloody, and weeping, smiles and tells him he must bear it.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
One of the groups included a weeping mother who had lost her child.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Aidan Levy’s 2022 biography “Saxophone Colossus” describes Rollins weeping when he got the news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
“Every moment I work in field, I think of you,” the woman said to Papa, switching to English, weeping harder now.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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