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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

She played golf with him;, was always around to congratulate him or condole over his score.

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

I couldn't congratulate you positively, on the event, and yet I hated to condole, in the case of people so gallant and distinguished.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James

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

While the billow mournful rolls, And the mermaid’s song condoles, Singing glory to the souls Of the brave!

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

Sancho laments the loss with true pathos, and the knight condoles with him.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Indeed, children who have hurt themselves often cry, not at the pain, but at the thought of the pain which is awakened when some one condoles with them.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Mrs. Alexander showed her disappointment at this unexpected action of her charming Count and refused to be condoled by anyone else.

From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

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

To his headquarters at the Hotel Commodore in New York City had come more than 30,000 letters, in growing volume, most of them not condoling with him but urging him to continue his "crusade."

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of condoling with the nobleman on his loss, and offering to make it good, he roundly rebuked him for taking away the character of honest men without due proof.

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Lilian Gask


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