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Recent Examples of elegy
Windy and warm today with showers developing ‘Reduced to dust’: An elegy for Gazan life
Biden, congressional leaders sound optimistic on funding government
How the Auto Train became one of Amtrak’s most profitable routes
The economy is roaring.
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Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
The mall is an elegy for what mid-20th-century politicians and progressives imagined downtown Los Angeles could be: a city with a vibrant core, accessible by freeways, anchored by a City Hall with encomiums inscribed above entrances exalting the public good.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
The mall is an elegy for what mid-20th-century politicians and progressives imagined downtown Los Angeles could be: a city with a vibrant core, accessible by freeways, anchored by a City Hall with encomiums inscribed above entrances exalting the public good.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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For example, many in the MAHA movement lament how the United States permits scores of pesticides and consumer product additives that are banned in Europe.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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Strickland’s lament racked up 159,000 likes and 13.2 million views.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain] Ethel Cain found unlikely pop fandom with Preacher’s Daughter, her 2022 debut album, thanks to its emotional dirges and heavy lyrics.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
10 Jan. 2025
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The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
19 July 2024
Noun
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Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
10 Jan. 2025
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No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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