mourn
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Hong Kong and Macau were once the only places in China where people could publicly mourn Beijing's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Tammy Wynette had it; just listen to her mourn how “the sun will never shine in Apartment #9” and your ear will catch the throb in her throat that echoes the song’s steel guitar.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
And it takes a universe to mourn one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
"When my body stopped working as it should I actually began to mourn my old self," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Her sentence was carried out in an instant, but that didn’t mean that her heart was hard or that she didn’t mourn for her friend.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Vocabulary lists containing mourn
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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