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[weep] / wip /


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Cooper said some developments had even featured "fake" weep vents, where decorative plastic pieces had been fitted instead of functioning openings.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

"We were forced to leave because of the Houthis," she told AFP, adding: "My children are still there -- they couldn't get out. I weep for them every day, waiting for them to escape."

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

But the sob in Tyler’s vocal made her recording — a No. 3 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 — the one to weep along with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

“Then we drive off and weep in the car,” says Lisa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

She began to weep with the same helplessness with which she had been speaking.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Daniela Lopez, 40, weeps as she speaks with the psychologist.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Romvari weeps as she spreads them out on a table, saying “hi” softly to her brothers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

No college basketball fan weeps for the Blue Devils’ bad luck, but Duke knows better than most that a great regular season doesn’t guarantee a championship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

In his national address on Wednesday, President Sánchez urged citizens to remain vigilant and pledged a full recovery, telling victims: “The whole of Spain weeps with you… we won’t abandon you.”

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024

“My soul weeps for you,” Sim said lightly.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He renders the original’s panoply of suffering in accessible English, as in this view of Satan: “With six eyes / He wept, and three chins let the foul tears fall / And bloody foam.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

An AFP correspondent saw people marching to the cemetery, waving Hezbollah flags as women dressed in black wept, holding pictures of the dead as an Israeli drone flew overhead.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Hynd, 33, who lost her job teaching computer animation at Fife College, wept as she was remanded in custody at the High Court in Edinburgh.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

When Morton heard that Nolan wanted to meet her for “The Odyssey,” she says she wept.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Anthony held Stanton and wept when it was time for her to leave at the end of their visit.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

What Howrey delivers with “Body Language” is a novel that covers all that ground while keeping the reader on the edge of their seat, alternately howling with laughter, holding their breath awaiting resolution, and weeping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"I doubt I could have done that if I'd been employed," she says, "and I think I'd have been weeping in the toilets at the office."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

The Buddha, seeing him bruised, bloody, and weeping, smiles and tells him he must bear it.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Then taking up his helmet he left her and she went to her house, often looking back at him and weeping bitterly.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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