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grieve

[greev] / griv /




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You can grieve the loss of your childhood home without assigning blame.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Puza said Culver CityBus service will be suspended throughout the weekend to allow the transit agency’s team time to grieve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Later, the two blended poignantly in the opera’s only duet, in which they grieve over their seemingly inevitable fate—they must die together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

They say they have been unable to grieve properly, and that the Probation Service especially "failed" to do its job.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

When he was feeling healthy he did not grieve much, because he knew the dilemma was inevitable—but in weak moments he was persecuted by shame and indecision.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Madonna grieves for her late brother Christopher on Fragile, a delicate song about their childhood, estrangement and reconciliation, that ends with her wishing, "I hope you found a higher ground".

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

“We are a first-world country, and speaking as a physician that knows this can be prevented, it grieves me,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Heaney grieves the violence, memorializing its complexity and horror in a poem that can stand with Yeats and Auden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

“I will not abandon Meereen to the fate of Asta- por. It grieves me to say so, but Westeros must wait.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

She grieved his death through art, painting a large oil portrait of him wearing a cowboy hat that she leaned against the wall of her Brooklyn loft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Grown-ups gave me positive attention when—as an actor—I failed, got sick, screamed and cried, killed, grieved and suffered,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The soap followed her as she grieved and began to navigate life as a single mother.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Montazeri grieved by sitting in front of his mother’s vanity, imagining she was sitting behind the mirror asking him everyday questions about homework or chores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

And he grieved because he was a failure.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Turturro wrecked us playing the grieving Irv on Apple TV’s trippy drama “Severance,” and when Irv disappeared in Season 2, fans worried we might have seen the last of him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

To be fair to the children, they are grieving and may be angry and confused.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The town moves from pitying her to whispering that she’s crazy, leaving her rutted in the anger stage of the grieving process.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

"It's been like a grieving process in a way. I feel like I've completely lost my identity and purpose."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Lilya’s way of grieving seems to have been to throw herself into battle.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein


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