tragedy
Example Sentences
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Tragedy, and many other things, as Flanagan blurs the psychological and the supernatural even more vigorously than James did.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Robert Chambers is one of the men I profile in my new book, The Tragedy of True Crime.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2025
His 2015 speech, “The Tragedy of the Horizon,” became a landmark in pushing the financial world to account for climate risk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
Nathan Thrall, the Pulitzer prize-winning American author, launched his book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, at the Educational Bookshop and is a friend of the owners.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2025
“I think I can still live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don’t read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.”
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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