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mourn

[mawrn, mohrn] / mɔrn, moʊrn /


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The attacks were "sad and abhorrent", Ramaphosa said, adding that "we in South Africa deeply regret and mourn" the lives lost.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

He returned to New York to tie up loose ends and attended synagogue during the fast of Tisha B’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the ancient temple in Jerusalem.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Charles and Caroline mourn their part in that displacement; they set out for Kansas with the best of intentions, lured by false advertisements of “free” land that never was.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

“We mourn alongside his family, and we remain committed to bringing him home.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

And the magic flowed and flowed from the old witch into the new, the way water flows down the mourn tain.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“The noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor,” he mourns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Observed on the last Monday of May each year, Memorial Day honors and mourns the military personnel who died both during wartime and times of peace.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

"The humanitarian family mourns a woman of conviction," Unicef in Cameroon posted on X, announcing that UN flags would be flown at half-mast in her honour.

From BBC Mar. 11, 2026

Her melodramatic sorrow at her stilted relationship with Alexis is palpable even as she mourns her daughter’s unwillingness to join her on a wine tasting tour in France . . . when Alexis was seven.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2026

“When a man’s beloved wife dies, he mourns her forever—even if he marries again for companionship. Your mother is a hard act to follow. She will always be the love of your life.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

At the Small Heaven School in Chitwan district, near Kathmandu, which Purja had once attended, students and staff lit candles and mourned his death.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Graham as one of Israel’s strongest friends in Washington and mourned the loss of a close personal friend.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

Fans who have long mourned F1’s transformation from hell-for-leather test of nerve into slick entertainment product see this as merely the latest in a string of measures to sanitize the sport.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Music and cultural figures like director Jim Jarmusch, Kid Congo Powers, and Cold Cave’s Wesley Eisold mourned Foreman’s death on social media.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

When Chandra mourned for her brother, we put our arms around each other.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

During Arbaeen, they show their grief, mourning with weeping and wailing in memory of Hussein.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

Los Angeles firefighters are mourning the death of a colleague in a crash in Whittier early Friday morning that involved a big rig.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The Prince of Wales described Tyler as a "proud Welsh icon" and Sir Cliff Richard said he was mourning "another wonderful friend gone too soon".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Meanwhile, in towns where Lindsey Graham grew up and lived, friends and neighbors are mourning the senator who never stopped coming home.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Already the mourning bands had been sewn around the arms of two gray suits, and now he was on the last.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers




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