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Abu Shehadeh had little choice but to withdraw in order to avoid a formal disqualification that would have "grave consequences for the country's political and parliamentary life", Balad said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The genetic evidence revealed that close biological relatives were surprisingly uncommon among people placed in the same grave.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

I will waste no time in telling you that the effect is terrible, a lifeless voice not so much from beyond the grave as buried in it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

When these die-offs occur, the pandas’ source of food in an area completely and instantly disappears—putting the pandas in grave danger if they cannot locate more bamboo within their habitat.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

So far, the war in Iran has put them in even graver danger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

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

Surely the threats posed to Tabassum can’t be graver than those facing a president of the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

Reeling from heartache, Monaco seems to search for meaning and solace in the far graver misfortunes of a friend referred to as “R,” a political prisoner turned asylum seeker and the show’s most revisited subject.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 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

"In the face of the gravest danger and despite being seriously injured, he showed immense courage and an unwavering resolve to protect the lives of others."

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Genocide” is among the gravest accusations that can be made against a nation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

It follows a landmark UN resolution earlier in March which recognised transatlantic slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity", urging UN member states to contribute to a reparations fund.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

It was East New Orleans, or the Lower Ninth, with its one-story houses so close to the levees, that were in the gravest danger.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

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

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

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

These lists are never meant to be permanent historical judgments, graven in stone.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2012

Matthias mentioned something that was bothering him as he looked at the graven lines.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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