mourn
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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
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"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
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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
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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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