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litany

[lit-n-ee] / ˈlɪt n i /


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She had suffered a "substantial" miscarriage of justice, they said, alleging a litany of irregularities and the misuse of evidence during the trial.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

An official inquiry found the National Coal Board was responsible for the Aberfan disaster, but survivors and bereaved families have long pointed to a litany of injustices.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The FDA reviewers cited a litany of dubious reasons why the outside experts shouldn’t trust the trial results, as we described in a recent editorial.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The president started his speech with a litany of boasts.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

Before she gave up on me, Mabel sent me a litany of reasons not to like her roommate.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

LeBlanc never moves her camera away from the ground level; there are no policy prescriptions, no litanies of statistics and no melodramatic statements about pity or persistence.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2025

The advanced age of many gangsters often becomes a factor at sentencing hearings, when bids for leniency tend to rely heavily on litanies of medications, impairments, illnesses and other ravages of time.

From Seattle Times Jun. 10, 2023

Because these kinds of litanies are not rare, I get why actor, writer, and producer Issa Rae, the woman behind "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," is over it.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2023

Reports from the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia became litanies of broken records: Temperatures in the Arctic region of Arkhangelsk were a staggering 14.4 degrees Fahrenheit above normal in December.

From Washington Post Mar. 5, 2020

Whether there was any truth to Boori Ma’s litanies no one could be sure.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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