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farewell

[fair-wel] / ˌfɛərˈwɛl /
INTERJECTION
goodbye (used to wish well)
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In L.A., a dying MTT led a profound performance of Mahler’s death-obsessed Ninth Symphony, not as a farewell but as a shamanistic savoring of every moment of life.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return,” which aired 18 episodes in 2017, was the most maximalist farewell imaginable, the kind of enormous canvas on which Lynch had always hoped to compose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

He is also bidding farewell to his Staten Island condo, as first reported by New York Post.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

No Friday farewell drinks with a goofy card everyone signed.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026

She must have known what that meant, must have sensed the farewell in it, because she fetched my father.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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