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Recent Examples of bereavement
Mercer's survey of 630 U.S. organizations found 62% now offer bereavement leave for pregnancy loss, and 58% offer bereavement leave for miscarriage.
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Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 18 May 2025
One example that made global headlines was Air Canada’s AI agent, which incorrectly told a customer about a bereavement discount.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
But even apart from recent budget cuts, there is a notable absence of national policies that reflect what loss actually looks like: expanded bereavement leave, sustained mental health funding, and public acknowledgment of collective trauma.
—Rebecca Soffer, Time, 10 May 2025
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Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 18 May 2025
One example that made global headlines was Air Canada’s AI agent, which incorrectly told a customer about a bereavement discount.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
But even apart from recent budget cuts, there is a notable absence of national policies that reflect what loss actually looks like: expanded bereavement leave, sustained mental health funding, and public acknowledgment of collective trauma.
—Rebecca Soffer, Time, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
Noun
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The absence of a map makes this slightly difficult.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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The presence of an autoimmune disease was used as a proxy for chronic inflammation in the absence of direct measurements of participants’ inflammatory markers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 June 2025
Noun
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According to one 2019 study published in the journal Sleep, moms and dads can expect to experience some form of sleep deprivation for the first six years of their child's life.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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The animals’ skulls are later surgically opened, electrodes are implanted into their brains, and researchers show them visual stimuli (images of faces, for example) to examine how the sensory deprivation or other visual manipulations affected their neurodevelopment.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The policy, while inevitably controversial, was meant to correct for the nearly fifty years of brutal privations that Black South Africans endured under apartheid.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
Noun
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Overnight low temperatures are rising nearly twice as fast as afternoon highs, and this lack of relief during the night poses a significant health risk -- particularly for those without access to air conditioning, according to the assessment.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
30 June 2025
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Reports have also indicated that Watt is upset with the organization over a lack of a deal, which could lead to a split.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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