dirge
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Its internal speaker plays a rumbling soundtrack that sends the drumsticks attached to the instrument flittering, giving the sense of a ghostly presence tapping out a brooding dirge.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Needle drops of Celtic folksongs and poems set to music give the impression that every Irish dirge yearns to get as morbid as “Nearer, My God, to Thee.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
It might be time to pause the funeral dirge for software and services stocks.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
The mystery, along with Lightfoot’s mournful and eminently meme-able dirge, created fertile soil for a cultural resurgence today—one driven largely by Gen Z and millennials who love mythologizing working-class tragedies and Midwestern nostalgia.
From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025
We heard the sounds of the traditional dirge grow louder, and so did the screams and wails coming from a memorial ceremony in a private room.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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