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A people can’t cry out for deliverance while refusing correction or ask God for justice while excusing wrongdoing in its own ranks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

On the main television in the waiting area, Freddie Freeman had hit another first inning homer, making Satsuki and Keiko, one of the stylists, cry out “Freeman!”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2024

In one clip, as a soldier talks to a woman, presumably his wife, their children cry out, “We love and miss you.”

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024

Doesn’t such a radical outcome cry out for an explanation?

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2024

As he left the hospital, he heard a happy voice cry out, “Overlander!”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins




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