grave
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But it saves us from a grave mistake, he wrote, “that can destroy or damage hope and make a bad situation worse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The author, an Icelandic medievalist now based in Norway, takes the reader on a journey through the lives of her subjects from infancy to the grave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Thomas said the possibility of having to leave her son, grandchildren, friends and husband's grave has become too much to bear.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Scientists agree that warming above 1.5C relative to pre-industrial times poses grave risks and nearly 200 nations committed a decade ago to try and keep global temperature rises to this safer threshold.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Even in the summer the chill never left the marble grave slabs on the floor.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
In fact, with the world becoming more chaotic and unstable, the threat they pose, the film argues, is graver than ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Nepal's rapper-turned-prime minister swept to power six months ago promising reform, but his young government now faces its gravest test after a glacial collapse unleashed catastrophe, analysts say.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The fear among its supporters is that the court will emerge weakened and less able to face the gravest global threats.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Established in 2002, the ICC prosecutes individuals accused of the gravest atrocities, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
“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 steep decline of these numbers over the centuries suggests that, for one of the gravest human concerns—getting murdered—- the incentives that we collectively cook up are working better and better.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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
Then I buried the giant in a deep and wide grave; and I raised a great carn over him, and placed on it a stone with his name graved in Ogam.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
I knew her in her prime, Before the seal of Time Was graven on her brow, As Age hath graved it now: When radiant Youth was just subdued To yield to gracious womanhood.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page
Needs there the praise of the love-written record, The name and the epitaph graved on the stone!
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Eva Hope
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
Mr. Shannon’s graven face, which looks carved from hard stone, registers little feeling as Carter spits questions and exhortations at Vinnie through barely parted lips.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2013
“Their names shall be graven on the Gates of Fate amongst the other valiant fallen,” declared Barsena.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The work of graving will never be finished.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
This graving free-for-all has caused some controversy over the years.
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
Los Angeles County likes to talk about its orange-juice joints, tabernacles, oil wells and graving docks, keep a stiff and silent upper lip over its floods and earthquakes.
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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