crying

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"It's very difficult, it is breaking my heart to wait for something uncertain," 47-year-old Casilao said, crying as she recounted how she slept alone at a local government building overnight Sunday.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

The day after, he said he couldn't stop crying.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

"My children went to bed hungry three nights in a row. My wife was crying, so were my children. So I begged a neighbour for some money to buy flour," he says.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

AFP reporters saw the released fighters -- with shaven-heads and draped in Ukrainian flags -- cheering, crying, embracing one another and waiting to be reunited with their families.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

I was holding a dozen crying babies and trying to spin a mountain of straw into gold while Opal screamed at me to hurry up because she’s the queen.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff