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litany

[lit-n-ee] / ˈlɪt n i /


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An official inquiry in 1967 found the National Coal Board was responsible for the Aberfan disaster, but survivors and bereaved families have long pointed to a litany of injustices.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

A litany of problems for the Rams have led them to so drastically underperform expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Arasha enjoys a few choice manipulative moves in her litany of parts, reversing situations that seem to have no obvious good outcome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

A week before that Slate report, he had fired his chief strategist for a litany of troubles.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

Through the tunnels of that island fortress came wind of a horror too great to speak aloud—a whispered litany that would take years to be fully disclosed to the world, and especially to me.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

LeBlanc never moves her camera away from the ground level; there are no policy prescriptions, no litanies of statistics and no melodramatic statements about pity or persistence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

Because these kinds of litanies are not rare, I get why actor, writer, and producer Issa Rae, the woman behind "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," is over it.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023

The emails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

It turned up in the passageways between the holes, when McIlroy often would smack litanies of hands, especially small ones.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2019

He clucked approvingly at pictures of cute grandkids, patiently endured gossip and long litanies of health woes, and nodded knowingly at stories about how money was tight.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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