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Recent Examples of bereavement
Well, the dog died, and now Lauren wants to take bereavement leave.
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
Texas mandates bereavement care with Everly's Law The state last year became the first to mandate maternity hospitals have a cooling bassinet and train staff in bereavement care, with the passage of Everly's Law.
—Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
In Twinless, now available to stream on Hulu, Dennis (Sweeney) and Roman (O’Brien) quickly spark a friendship after meeting in a bereavement support group for twins.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
Princess Kate is patron of the organization working across England, Wales, and the Isle of Man to protect children and support adults, working with families that have experienced adversity, abuse and traumatic bereavement.
—Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
Texas mandates bereavement care with Everly's Law The state last year became the first to mandate maternity hospitals have a cooling bassinet and train staff in bereavement care, with the passage of Everly's Law.
—Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
In Twinless, now available to stream on Hulu, Dennis (Sweeney) and Roman (O’Brien) quickly spark a friendship after meeting in a bereavement support group for twins.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
Princess Kate is patron of the organization working across England, Wales, and the Isle of Man to protect children and support adults, working with families that have experienced adversity, abuse and traumatic bereavement.
—Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
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For example, Vermont legislators have introduced legislation requiring that tech products used in school be registered and certified with the Secretary of State to prove limited data collection and the absence of addictive algorithms.—
Abby McCloskey,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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And haunting is about distance, the presence of an absence.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Hamilton says severe sleep deprivation can be comparable to driving under the influence, affecting your accuracy and reaction time.—
Wakisha Bailey,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Such terrible deprivations the newcomers to our land must endure while guzzling nips, smoking weed and driving the wrong way on our interstate highways.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
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The earthly experience of personal grief and privation that inspired such transcendent beauty is mind-bending in its own way.—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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Diaries kept by Eugenia Zieber describe the privations of the trail, chief among them the frequent deaths of fellow travelers.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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As recently as 2022, research group IDinsight found unintended pregnancy was, after a lack of money for school fees, the leading cause of girls not returning to education.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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In Miami-Dade, the lack of oversight has been acute, the Herald found.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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