weep
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But the sob in Tyler’s vocal made her recording — a No. 3 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 — the one to weep along with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
Read, and weep for the future of America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Simons charged investors 5% management plus 44% of profits — and billionaires who negotiate prenups that would make Machiavelli weep begged to get in.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
Powerful angels, safe in heaven! they smile when sordid souls triumph, and feeble ones weep over their destruction.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Daniela Lopez, 40, weeps as she speaks with the psychologist.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Romvari weeps as she spreads them out on a table, saying “hi” softly to her brothers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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
In his national address on Wednesday, President Sánchez urged citizens to remain vigilant and pledged a full recovery, telling victims: “The whole of Spain weeps with you… we won’t abandon you.”
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024
“Yes, and for this he weeps in the night, and this is why he is so pale and so reedy a lad,” answered the eldest son.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
Zhang Xue wept with joy and furiously waved a Chinese flag as he watched his company's superbike scream across the finish line four seconds ahead of competitors in only its third world championship race.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
When Morton heard that Nolan wanted to meet her for “The Odyssey,” she says she wept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Members of Atticus' family gasped and wept in the court's public gallery after the verdict was read out.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the footage broadcast by state media, women wept over the graves; some carried photos of the deceased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The messengers of the Aesir rode like the wind, and they asked each thing they encountered if it wept for Balder, so that Balder could be free of Hel ’s world.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
“In fact, for someone like Michaela to be weeping openly at a funeral was incredibly taboo,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
He looked over at the Gustanos, weeping and wailing and reeling about blindly and helplessly, just like the guards.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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