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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry (for)
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The bold stage design of Boone’s show allows for maximum athleticism, with red lacquered stairs lining the sides of a circular stage and hydraulic platforms providing the launch pads for the frequent airborne antics that must make his insurance company weep.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025 -
Mourners embraced one another, some quietly weeping.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
18 Aug. 2025
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Unexpectedly, Bex asks Lizzie to exclusively interview her about her ranch and influencing career.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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Related, ask any already empathetic Nashville singer-songwriter about the value of consistently showing up in writing rooms.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Her lack of emotion baffles the people around her, who expect, or even require, keening expressions of grief.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The aunties kneel and sway and hug on the living-room floor, keening dramatically one minute, chuckling over their cellphones the next.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025
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Which begs a question: How will she be treated by the Grammys?—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025
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See the full setlist here The music does a lot of the legwork, stadium-ready with massive, no-frills choruses begging to be sung back to him by hoards of devotees.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
29 Aug. 2025
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Trump has seen essentially none of his civilian nominees approved easily since Marco Rubio was confirmed as secretary of state — a unanimous vote that Democrats quickly grew to regret.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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And as with Moss, teams often wound up regretting it.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
27 Aug. 2025
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Even in California, a reliably blue state, the soul-searching has been extreme, as seen at last weekend’s state Democratic Party convention, where a parade of speakers — including Harris’ 2024 running mate, Tim Walz — wailed and moaned and did the woe-is-us-thing.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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But in peacetime, the nation often retreats into suspicion: frowning on success, moaning about profit, and wrapping ambition in red tape.—
London Business School,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The trope tends to elegize artists who are perceived to be ahead of their time or otherwise inimical to regnant conventions.—
Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2021
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Spielberg h as chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing.—
Eliza Berman,
Time,
5 Oct. 2017
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“Cry (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cry%20%28for%29. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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