requiem
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Perhaps that’s why it doesn’t feel like any kind of celebration as much as an otherworldly requiem for a country that no longer exists.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
But Paul’s retirement also stands as a requiem for the position he so thoroughly mastered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
By the end, this novel has become at once a requiem, a farewell, an old soft-shoe number — and a warning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
On the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, Tommy photographed a requiem shark, its body arched in a final act of resistance.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
“I caved in. The other day, Nina said she’d noticed all of the requiem masses I’d been listening to. She suggested some others. Here’s the hideous thing.”
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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