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Recent Examples of elegy
Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.
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Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Not every elegy comes in the form of a dying fall.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Not every elegy comes in the form of a dying fall.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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If Park’s film begins as another lament for our layoff-laden modern world, the South Korean director soon introduces a sinister twist.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Joel Stedifor sent two pictures of his classic 85-year-old Pontiac and shared my lament about the dearth of old, old Pontiac automobiles.—
Laura Lane,
USA Today,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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And that's how a six and a half minute folk dirge with no hook, no guitar solo, and 28 two-line stanzas became a hit.—
NPR,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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At first a dirge, then the tempo rises, and the hymnal swells.—
Jenny Adams,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Duke of York retreated from public life in November 2019 after a car crash interview with the BBC about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, but attended the requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.—
Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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