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Recent Examples of elegy
Eephus is an elegy, but with just the barest hint of sentimentality—a shrugging send-off that simultaneously cares deeply about America’s pastime.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Lachlan Murdoch delivered a brief elegy this morning for shuttered sports streaming joint venture Venu but said Fox is moving ahead with plans to launch a new direct-to-consumer service drawing on all its content and brands by the end of the calendar year.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
But The Wickedest, his epic poem released in the United States last week, is not a COVID-era elegy.
—Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2025
Initially buried by its studio, this trickily ambiguous thriller feels like an elegy for the seventies and was later recouped as one of the best films of its era.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Lachlan Murdoch delivered a brief elegy this morning for shuttered sports streaming joint venture Venu but said Fox is moving ahead with plans to launch a new direct-to-consumer service drawing on all its content and brands by the end of the calendar year.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
But The Wickedest, his epic poem released in the United States last week, is not a COVID-era elegy.
—Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2025
Initially buried by its studio, this trickily ambiguous thriller feels like an elegy for the seventies and was later recouped as one of the best films of its era.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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Many online expressed lament over the resort towns’ popularity too.—
Monica Pitrelli,
CNBC,
1 Apr. 2025
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My own experience and reality invalidated and denied, which in her heart today would be a very painful lament.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
Noun
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Though it was written around the time of Malibu’s Woolsey fire, the 14-minute long dirge that encompasses flames in Malibu and a cougar that roams the hills took on a new and sinister meaning in the aftermath of the more recent fires.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The album thematically focuses on the idea of the afterlife in both a literal and figurative sense, with a touch of Carlile's anecdotal songwriting and requiems for artists' past.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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