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condole

[kuhn-dohl] / kənˈdoʊl /


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There will be time to collectively mourn, condole and rebuild, when they no longer are, when all communities are safe.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2025

I will definitely miss him and I condole with his family, his BBC fans and the BBC family.

From BBC Jan. 18, 2014

We had assembled to condole with a martyr.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Mrs. McGuire, owner of 40 dogs herself, hurried to Long Island to condole with Poopchin and the Pekes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Commiserate, kom-iz′ėr-āt, v.t. to feel for the miseries of another: to pity: to condole with.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Her team listens, condoles with the families and tries to humanise the situation.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

In his best vestryman's voice, T. S. Eliot restates his cultured disenchantment with the wartime world and condoles with humanity, shivering in "the cold wind That blows before and after time."

From Time Magazine Archive

Imagining nothing idler than words in the face of grave events, he condoles and congratulates with the genteelest air in the world.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

Mr. Vernor condoles with me handsomely, and lets me know that the young lady’s attitude has been a great shock to his nerves. 

From Eugene Pickering by James, Henry

The Doctor at this juncture happens in and condoles with him.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

Marcos Jr. visited Ramos’ wake Thursday and condoled with the family of Ramos, who, he said, “was a symbol of stability after all the tumultuous events of 1986.”

From Seattle Times Aug. 8, 2022

They condoled with her for the hate mail.

From The Guardian Sep. 22, 2019

"Mr. American, how come you haven't even condoled?"

From US News Oct. 22, 2014

Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common."

From Time Magazine Archive

In kind yet constrained tones the monarch condoled with her as he heard of Fido's disappearance.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

Lukashenko placed red roses at Makei’s coffin before his burial Tuesday and briefly touched the dead man’s arm, gazing at him for a few moments, dry-eyed, before condoling with Makei’s family.

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2022

Now, I’m very sad to be condoling with his family and friends.

From Slate Oct. 31, 2020

These days you’ll see that condoling frowny face on nearly TV-news emissary.

From Time Oct. 31, 2014

They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Matilda blushed at seeing Theodore and Isabella together; but endeavoured to conceal it by embracing the latter, and condoling with her on her father’s mischance.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William




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