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as in to grieve
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
we mourned for weeks after our beloved pet's death
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as in to lament
to feel or express sorrow for
an editorial that mourns the loss of the town's last movie theater
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Recent Examples of mourn
The difference is that Frost’s poems are mourning not a friend but the pastoral life the poet has left behind, and mourning, too, his eldest child, Elliott, who died at age three, of cholera, in 1900.
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Southern Connecticut State University community is mourning the death of a a first-year psychology major from Farmington.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2025
The Glenview police department and village officials and staff are mourning the loss of Police Officer Robert Fryc, 43, who was killed in a traffic crash Sunday morning in Barrington while on his way to work, per a police department news release.
—Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Its living exhibits show moments from mankind’s relationship with technology: Mary Shelley (Sieh) mourns a child while giving Frankenstein’s monster life; a lonely nineteen-seventies roboticist (Ryan Spahn) calls his creation fondly by name; humans lose the robot war.
—The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Southern Connecticut State University community is mourning the death of a a first-year psychology major from Farmington.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2025
The Glenview police department and village officials and staff are mourning the loss of Police Officer Robert Fryc, 43, who was killed in a traffic crash Sunday morning in Barrington while on his way to work, per a police department news release.
—Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Its living exhibits show moments from mankind’s relationship with technology: Mary Shelley (Sieh) mourns a child while giving Frankenstein’s monster life; a lonely nineteen-seventies roboticist (Ryan Spahn) calls his creation fondly by name; humans lose the robot war.
—The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
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To everyone who is grieving today – whose grief has defined your very existence for the past 503 days – please reach out for help.—
Samantha Joseph,
Boston Herald,
22 Feb. 2025
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Chege hasn’t had much time to grieve the loss of her job.—
Jennifer Liu,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2025
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Following the news of the break-in at his home in December, Bengals quarterback Burrow lamented the lack of privacy that may have contributed to the burglary.—
Chelsea Bailey and Josh Campbell,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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Mayor Bowser lamented the president’s remarks on Thursday.—
Campbell Robertson,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Will Brooklyn regret not trading Johnson at peak value?—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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And if waterproof eye makeup has left you rubbing and regretting in the past, don’t worry—we’ve found long-wear options that deliver a comfortable, smudge-proof definition without the teary-eyed struggle.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
17 Feb. 2025
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The grandmother would flee, and Billy would smite his chest and in Old Testament tones bewail his sinful life.—
Werner Herzog,
The New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2023
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Among progressives, the same people who bewail the influence of corporations on cultural and political life also propose to entrench the social role of big businesses by making individual Americans more dependent on them for everything from health care to retirement income.—
Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review,
13 May 2021
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“Mourn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mourn. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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