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Recent Examples of bereavement
If your company offers emergency leave for bereavement or illness but not immigration, your policies are not inclusive.
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Jenn Tardy, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Hughes and her husband decided to create a bereavement camp to help children at the beginning of their grieving journey.
—Brian Brant, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Oddly, Oh doesn’t seem to express the bereavement that is Olivia’s reason—or excuse—for withdrawing from the world of men.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Though some private New York employers already offer similar bereavement policies, there’s no across-the-board guarantee at the moment.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
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Jenn Tardy, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Hughes and her husband decided to create a bereavement camp to help children at the beginning of their grieving journey.
—Brian Brant, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Oddly, Oh doesn’t seem to express the bereavement that is Olivia’s reason—or excuse—for withdrawing from the world of men.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Though some private New York employers already offer similar bereavement policies, there’s no across-the-board guarantee at the moment.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
Noun
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Multiple players have stepped up in their absence.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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On the labor market side, data from private payrolls firm ADP is one of the tools investors can focus on in the absence of the BLS report.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Sleep deprivation will do that.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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Every meal at Nobu was a reminder that wellness doesn’t mean deprivation.—
Lisa Greissinger,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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At seventy, Padura is a voice of a generation that endured a long war in Angola and the privations that followed the Soviet collapse.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Since 2022, Russia repeatedly urged China to act quickly to save its economy from inevitable privations stemming from the collapse of its Western market.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Youths frustrated at a social media ban, corruption and lack of economic opportunities coordinated mass protests via Discord that helped bring down the government.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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If the shutdown drags on, the lack of government data could strain investors’ understanding of the health of the labor market and path of inflation at a time when stocks are historically expensive and vulnerable to a surprise.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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