grief
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"Either the burden of grief is going to be enough for us to give up, or that we're going to financially exhaust ourselves."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The story here is about the strange relationships that form in the wake of devastating loss, and an examination of the unpredictable, messy and confusing connections often found between people experiencing grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
He may feel grief and even perhaps guilt as a result of inheriting a large sum of money from an individual who led a modest lifestyle herself.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Gillam-Kirton says her grief has been made worse by the way the Spanish authorities have behaved since.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
But her love for him was eternal and would help him navigate his grief.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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There are griefs other than antisemitism and racism, she complains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The tension can be felt in private conversations and encounters — the griefs, the anxieties, the feelings of being in a media fishbowl.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
This might be dramatised fiction but the losses and griefs are very real.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
“Even in WandaVision — really all of the films I’ve gotten to do — she’s constantly straddling this line and usually her biggest emotive losses or griefs are when something’s born,” Olsen said.
From The Verge ● May 9, 2022
But what I had not realized in solitary confinement was that to have companions meant to have their griefs as well.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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I can only say how sincerely I ask pardon for having griefed you.
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
Fake news and misinformation are part of that, as are the traditional griefing techniques of subcultural trolls.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016
In a blog post after Tay’s griefing, Peter Lee, the vice president of Microsoft Research, vowed to “work toward contributing to an internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2016
“Folks who are griefing or trolling feel like they are in a secondary universe that isn’t the same as the real world,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2016
Although Lin's efforts are “admirable and likely industry-leading”, the representative says, many games are still “awash with verbal harassment, griefing and overall negative behaviour from teammates and opponents”.
From Nature ● Mar. 29, 2016
And so their griefing of other players is not necessarily done out of meanness, but more out of a sense of exploration, a way of finding their footing in an uncertain new universe.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2013
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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