grave
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Last month, two United Nations human rights experts called on Iran to release the couple, saying that proceedings against them had been marked by grave irregularities.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo said his nation shared the "grave and serious concern and disappointment of other Pacific leaders" at the launch of the nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Your grave mistake is unforgivable,” he said, addressing the Iranian diplomats in a video on his YouTube account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
People who have made grave errors should still be able to vote, to advocate for the policies they believe in, and to participate in the democratic process.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
She wasn’t investigating the jewelry heists and grave robbing I’d read about in the newspapers.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
Still, Lee figures that his suit against Yoon has at least a marginally higher chance of success, given the far graver offense at hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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 searched the wound on Frodo’s shoulder with his fingers, and his face grew graver, as if what he learned disquieted him.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
At first, it was marketed as a narrow backstop to prosecute the gravest crimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
From the gravest to the most basic, a set of choices will confront Andy Burnham as soon as he walks through the Downing Street door.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Alicia Keys fills the CRV that drives me past MacArthur Park, site of my gravest parenting anxieties.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
Asia faces the gravest fallout from the war and is confronting a major energy crisis, the head of global maritime analytics firm Kpler told AFP on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 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 Wiley, Hugh
Bright shine the helmets strewn with gold and gems, And shields and hauberks graved.
From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Rabillon, Léonce
They would have been wrong, of course, like all clean sweepers; for in addition to his inheritance of ruin, misfortunes had graved him deeply.
From The Spanish Jade by Hyde, William Henry
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
For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
It’s what sucked me into graving, despite my startling first encounter with Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
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
In Sydney harbor, Australia's one important naval base, a new graving dock will soon be able to repair the largest battleships.
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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