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elegy

[el-i-jee] / ˈɛl ɪ dʒi /


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Bi is far more invested in that latter revolution and consequently, “Resurrection” can be seen as an elegy for a medium whose cultural relevance has somewhat slipped.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2025

"She was at death's door, and she knew I could write, so she asked me to write her an elegy if the worst came to the worst."

From BBC Nov. 10, 2025

Released in 1976, less than a year after the ship’s sinking, his folk ballad became an instant hit, turning a regional disaster into an international elegy.

From Slate Nov. 10, 2025

The novel reads like a wintry elegy to the once proud cad.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

Word spread quickly on the street that a small elegy of scythes had entered the Tonist cloister.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

But amid the elegies written about American capitalism, the latest mini-IPO boom is a welcome tribute to the dynamism of U.S. markets that no other country can match.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

"But I felt as if I were writing elegies, actually."

From BBC Oct. 13, 2023

The participants, mostly wearing black clothes, beat their chests and recited elegies in the commercial heart of Srinagar.

From Washington Times Jul. 27, 2023

It was the beginning of a revolution, which Ferreira completed by abandoning the hendecasyllable for the Italian decasyllable, and by composing the noble and austere 286 Roman poetry of his letters, odes and elegies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various




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