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mourn

[mawrn, mohrn] / mɔrn, moʊrn /


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"There is no need to mourn for me," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Charles and Caroline mourn their part in that displacement; they set out for Kansas with the best of intentions, lured by false advertisements of “free” land that never was.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

The attacks come as Iranians mourn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader killed at the start of the Iran war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

“We mourn the loss of Rams Legend LeRoy Irvin,” the team wrote on social media.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart,” she says.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"The Bureau of the Emir mourns the great loss to the nation of the late, may God have mercy on him," a statement read.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

“The noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor,” he mourns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Observed on the last Monday of May each year, Memorial Day honors and mourns the military personnel who died both during wartime and times of peace.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

Her melodramatic sorrow at her stilted relationship with Alexis is palpable even as she mourns her daughter’s unwillingness to join her on a wine tasting tour in France . . . when Alexis was seven.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2026

“When a man’s beloved wife dies, he mourns her forever—even if he marries again for companionship. Your mother is a hard act to follow. She will always be the love of your life.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

On the day of the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, Faruqi had offered condolences to those who mourned for the queen in a social media post.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Graham as one of Israel’s strongest friends in Washington and mourned the loss of a close personal friend.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

Only in retrospect could she see that the permanence she mourned had never been fixed; it was a world her parents had continually worked to hold in place.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Juan Antonio Rodriguez, a 71-year-old colonel in the interior ministry, mourned the loss of one of the last members of Cuba's old guard.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

As the survivors made camp and mourned for their lost companions two strange objects entered the Bay.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

For UnitedHealth, where Thompson was a widely liked, affable executive who had risen through the ranks to lead its insurance unit, the loss left colleagues mourning at the same time they felt under attack.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

A period of mourning has been declared in Tatarstan.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

News of Jackie’s death is sending ripples of mourning through her fan base.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Social media was also awash with tributes to Purja, with many saying that Nepal was in mourning and that the country had lost a "legend" and "many great climbers".

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

The house he had planned to spend a night in, that of his friend Admetus, a king in Thessaly, was a place of deep mourning when he came to it although he did not know.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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