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expressing or suggesting mourning
a slow and heavy funeral song
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Recent Examples of funeral
Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
Needless to say, this tension is darkly entertaining, like a fistfight at a funeral.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2024
On Wednesday, walkie-talkies exploded, some during funeral processions being held for militants killed in Tuesday's explosions.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Many have memories of weddings, baptisms and funerals for loved ones held in the buildings they’re being asked to abandon.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
Needless to say, this tension is darkly entertaining, like a fistfight at a funeral.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
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The funeral banner features a typical mix of Lebanese faces, making up three generations of a Shiite Muslim family that lived for decades in this predominantly Christian area north of Beirut.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2024
On Wednesday, walkie-talkies exploded, some during funeral processions being held for militants killed in Tuesday's explosions.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2024
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Following the service, interment will be at Beth Hamedrosh Hagodel Cemetery,134 S. Dana Court in Milwaukee.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
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From the date of death until interment for the governor of a state, territory or possession.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Oct. 2024
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
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Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Russell Crowe beating people to death in a soulful, mournful way?Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
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Cut to everyone on the ranch preparing for John’s burial — and the metaphorical funeral of the Yellowstone itself.William Earl, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
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Those efforts still failed to find any crash or burial sites associated with the crew of Little Joe.Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2024
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Madison is flawless in these closing scenes: stunned, heartbroken, unable to respond to the tentative romantic gestures of a Russian henchman who's taken a shine to her.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Dog Breeds For Your Perfect Match By Brian Dillon Home & Travel Reporter 0 A dog that chewed through a wall to see its owner has left the internet heartbroken.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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The two are likely headed for a new bitter legal fight with money at stake.Alina Selyukh, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
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The pith can be bitter, so some people don’t like the taste.Merve Ceylan, Health, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Funeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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