ˈre-kwē-əm
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Recent Examples of requiem
Some of my colleagues have written requiems for the Tea Party.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 May 2024
Let this be not a requiem for Clark but an appreciation.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Beyoncé has signed Giddens’s petition of requiem and reckoning, legacy and elegy.
—Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Equal parts requiem, oratorio, and manifesto, Angel Island tells the collective story of Chinese immigrants held at a notorious detention center in San Francisco Bay.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 May 2024
Let this be not a requiem for Clark but an appreciation.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Beyoncé has signed Giddens’s petition of requiem and reckoning, legacy and elegy.
—Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Equal parts requiem, oratorio, and manifesto, Angel Island tells the collective story of Chinese immigrants held at a notorious detention center in San Francisco Bay.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for requiem
Noun
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But these laments seemed to reach a crescendo during the Biden administration, which was seen as too focused on the United States’ growing rivalry with Beijing and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to devote even minimal bandwidth to its southern neighbors.Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Opponents lament diverting taxpayer funding from public schools to private ones and point to examples of misuse of funds, like buying dune buggies.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
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Following long minutes of silence, a dirge of bagpipes began streaming from the church, suddenly growing loud as 10 pipers emerged with a corps of drummers behind, playing on as pallbearers rolled the casket out.Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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“Requiem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requiem. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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