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
As the gig continues, they dance and cheer and weep.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
All I wanted then was to sink into a pot of chicken-and-rice stew and weep.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
Watching sports is also fun, even Wisconsin football, where I laugh so I don’t weep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“Just like at Swanburne,” Penelope said, which made her weep afresh, for had any Swanburne girl ever failed so miserably at her duties?
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Daniela Lopez, 40, weeps as she speaks with the psychologist.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
The Halos have gone to halo, the Big A is now the Big L and, somewhere, a rally monkey weeps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
Kywe Nyein, 71, weeps as he explains that his family are preparing to hold the funeral of his five-year-old granddaughter, Thet Hter San.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
“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
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He had wept in the witness box on Thursday as he spoke about his relationship with his children.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Now she wept, with a huge smile spread over her face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
On Wednesday night, protesters in the square wept and embraced each other after learning the news.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
When Morton heard that Nolan wanted to meet her for “The Odyssey,” she says she wept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Nevertheless, as the wind moaned across the heath and the Crochan loomed before him like an iron shadow, he thought once again of the brooch, and he buried his face in his hands and wept.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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The real return isn’t in hotel occupancy or pounds of ribs sold; it’s in the 90 minutes when 40 million Iraqis narrowed to one—a man weeping over a goal that meant nothing and everything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
"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
I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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