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litany

[lit-n-ee] / ˈlɪt n i /


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While Mexico and other Latin American countries traditionally celebrate on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, a litany of Día de los Muertos festivities fill up the Southern California calendar beginning in early October.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

At a school that has produced a litany of star NFL receivers in recent years, including the Seattle Seahawks’ Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Harrison generated the most chatter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

O'Lali, 28, of Breton Court in Lisburn, was sentenced to two years and seven months in relation to what the judge described in court as a "shameful litany of events".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The spectators who stuck around, including Josh Levin, were “treated to a litany of scenes you don’t typically see at a Grand Slam tennis match.”

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

When he came back on, he was quick and curt and aggressive, and rattled off a litany of questions.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

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

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

As was also the case with Tom Stoppard’s Broadway hit “Leopoldstadt,” I sometimes felt in “Otto Frank” that the names of the camps and the litanies of loss were being dragooned into dramatic service illegitimately.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

And so the Oprah Winfrey-produced, Reginald Hudlin-directed documentary “Sidney” ticks off litanies of both aesthetic and cultural achievements, without ever feeling obligatory.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022

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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