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"We were forced to leave because of the Houthis," she told AFP, adding: "My children are still there -- they couldn't get out. I weep for them every day, waiting for them to escape."

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Then we drive off and weep in the car,” says Lisa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

All I wanted then was to sink into a pot of chicken-and-rice stew and weep.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025

There is a sense of disbelief in this Sierra Leonean village as people weep in front of the bodies of two teenage boys wrapped in white cloth.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

She sniffles a little, then wipes her nose and doesn’t weep.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Daniela Lopez, 40, weeps as she speaks with the psychologist.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

No college basketball fan weeps for the Blue Devils’ bad luck, but Duke knows better than most that a great regular season doesn’t guarantee a championship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

In a meticulously crafted stop-motion world of gritty dockside poverty, a starving waif discovers the neglected girl in a shabby home weeps not teardrops but pearls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

One employee weeps with glee upon meeting him, and others curtsy when he walks into their office.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

Ashima, now Monu, weeps with relief, and Ashoke, now Mithu, kisses his brothers on both cheeks, holds their heads in his hands.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

He renders the original’s panoply of suffering in accessible English, as in this view of Satan: “With six eyes / He wept, and three chins let the foul tears fall / And bloody foam.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

His family members screamed with delight in the packed courtroom in Valletta, while Caruana Galizia's family wept, the agency said.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

On Thursday, he wept as he described his frantic calls to missing devotees, in a video message posted from Tibet to his several million followers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

This time, Messi was so happy, he wept.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

She talked until her voice gave out and still she clung to Mother and wept if the woman showed any sign of leaving.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

"I doubt I could have done that if I'd been employed," she says, "and I think I'd have been weeping in the toilets at the office."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

The real return isn’t in hotel occupancy or pounds of ribs sold; it’s in the 90 minutes when 40 million Iraqis narrowed to one—a man weeping over a goal that meant nothing and everything.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The Buddha, seeing him bruised, bloody, and weeping, smiles and tells him he must bear it.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

One social media video showed smoke pouring from the upper floors of an apartment block, while a woman behind the camera could be heard weeping in distress.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

When she regained her senses, she could only sit there in a crumpled heap, weeping.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood