weep
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All I wanted then was to sink into a pot of chicken-and-rice stew and weep.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
Watching sports is also fun, even Wisconsin football, where I laugh so I don’t weep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Simons charged investors 5% management plus 44% of profits — and billionaires who negotiate prenups that would make Machiavelli weep begged to get in.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
Geoffrey Boycott has not played for 40 years and is still one of the most famous cricketers in the country, David Gower's cover drive made grown men weep.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
I want to bellow, to weep into my father’s knees and promise never to do it again.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Daniela Lopez, 40, weeps as she speaks with the psychologist.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
The Halos have gone to halo, the Big A is now the Big L and, somewhere, a rally monkey weeps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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 his national address on Wednesday, President Sánchez urged citizens to remain vigilant and pledged a full recovery, telling victims: “The whole of Spain weeps with you… we won’t abandon you.”
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024
Completely demoralized and frustrated he lays in his canoe at day’s end and weeps.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
At a vigil last weekend, community members held placards in solidarity and wept.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
When a friend phoned Andreína from La Guaira to tell her of Kleiber's rescue she fell to the floor and screamed and wept, before heading to meet him.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Easy: Yesterday, I was not only gripping the armrest but gripping the hand of the flight attendant who was sitting down in the aisle, soothing me as I hyperventilated and wept.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
She wept, partially because she might never see her son again and partially, according to Felix, because “she feared that Basel might be utterly destroyed by the army of Charles V,” the Holy Roman Emperor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
They wept and trembled; tenderly he kissed the top of her head.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Did you catch the interview with the German fan weeping over the kindness of strangers in Boston?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
One of the groups included a weeping mother who had lost her child.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
“In fact, for someone like Michaela to be weeping openly at a funeral was incredibly taboo,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
She was still asleep, but she was weeping.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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