tragedy
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Financial planning has typically treated a long life as a blessing and an early death as the tragedy to guard against.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
It’s truly a tragedy when families become casualties of things that, in the long run, may not matter nearly as much as the people involved.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
That email set off a chain of events that led to one of the biggest academic scandals in Cambridge’s recent history and ended in tragedy when Arday was found dead in south London last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
For some families, encounters with illegally-ridden electric motorbikes have ended in tragedy.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
And he thought it was a tragedy that these tiny miracles would disappear.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
"It's an emotional release that I think we are often denied because we have to read tragedies in the news every day and then keep our heads down and work."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
As it marks two-and-a-half centuries of triumphs and tragedies, slavery and freedom, civil war and world wars, surveys show the nation is pessimistic about the chances of realizing the "American Dream."
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
“Coriolanus” has never been one of Shakespeare’s more popular tragedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Was it because of the time she’d taken off, or the fact—as she was starting to realize—that she had no desire to tunnel into hard stories and bitter tragedies?
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Vocabulary lists containing tragedy
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