grave
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The lawyers' association similarly expressed "grave concern" and demanded investigation.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yabloko has called the war in Ukraine “a grave crime” and campaigned for “a ceasefire, diplomacy, and peace!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The 101-page complaint says the restrictions "cause grave damage to the ability to bring to justice the perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Helaena saw through all of it, and what she saw but had yet to say, well, she took that to her grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
She heard more arguing and the slam of a car door, and then Boaz appeared at the edge of the grave.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said on Friday she was "sickened" by the case, adding: "The crime could hardly be graver, yet the punishment was no punishment at all."
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
So far, the war in Iran has put them in even graver danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
“It’s far graver. Far, far graver now than it was.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Before I was ever a graver myself, one of my now-comrades in Texas wrote a memorial to a man on Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
He had been graver than usual of late, but very pleasant, and when jokingly accused of turning over a new leaf, he answered soberly, “So I am, and I mean this one shall stay turned.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
“But it’s shifting what he represents in death: from a repressive figure many wanted gone, to the architect of a strategy that, in the end, kept the country intact against its gravest modern threat.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The conference, which brought together leaders from around Africa and the Caribbean, comes after the United Nations adopted a historic resolution that declared the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Alicia Keys fills the CRV that drives me past MacArthur Park, site of my gravest parenting anxieties.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
Expulsion from the House requires a two-thirds majority, a threshold so high that Congress has wielded the sanction only in the gravest cases, removing just six members in its 237-year history.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
“Were it to be otherwise,” he said, “the gravest issues would arise.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.
From Time Magazine Archive
Heah's de answeh, graved on de gol' tablets an' dug up in de midnight moon wid a luck spade.
From Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley
One of our men, a stone-mason in times of peace, roughly graved his name on the slab above him.
From War and the Weird by Forbes Phillips
Climb up those heaven-tipt peaks thy dizziest height, Thou there shalt read, graved deep, my name and age; Dig down thy deepest depth, shalt read them still.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page
The difference here is that Jackson’s intended audience—which, again, includes the vast majority of Americans who do not keep a graven image of Antonin Scalia in their homes—does not take assertions like this seriously anymore.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2024
Those included condemnation of just the sort of graven imagery his son would later master for the Church of Rome and its royal cohorts in Habsburg Spain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.
From The Verge ● Feb. 4, 2019
Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017
This would make it easier to read the message that had been graven underneath the tapestry.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
This graving free-for-all has caused some controversy over the years.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
The work of graving will never be finished.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
It’s what sucked me into graving, despite my startling first encounter with Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Then the news was published that the Government intended to send one of the floating docks, surrendered by Germany, to Singapore instead of building a costly graving dock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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