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Recent Examples of bereavement
The mom of two said she's been relying on her bereavement nurse to help her through this difficult time and took a vacation with her partner and kids to get some space from the situation.
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Hannah Sacks, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Ending that bond can be surprisingly painful, like a breakup or even a bereavement, says Vasan.
—Robert Hart, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
The title tune is an intense 10-minute confession of bereavement, mourning a friend from her teenage years.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
The frame snugly encases the family in ways that recall the bereavement scenes in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and like Shula, the protagonist of Rungano Nyoni’s haunting Zambian drama, Anand is forced to alter the shape of his grief to fit the contours of cultural obligations.
—Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
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Hannah Sacks, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Ending that bond can be surprisingly painful, like a breakup or even a bereavement, says Vasan.
—Robert Hart, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
The title tune is an intense 10-minute confession of bereavement, mourning a friend from her teenage years.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
The frame snugly encases the family in ways that recall the bereavement scenes in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and like Shula, the protagonist of Rungano Nyoni’s haunting Zambian drama, Anand is forced to alter the shape of his grief to fit the contours of cultural obligations.
—Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
Noun
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The European Publishers Council criticized the absence of a breakup order.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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Almost exactly a year ago, Glasnow’s absence provided the impetus for Roberts’ rallying cry that carried the Dodgers to October.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Some research shows creatine may help with mood disorders, potentially including postpartum depression, in addition to countering sleep deprivation.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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Haley was found guilty of two counts of deprivation of rights resulting in bodily injury and two counts of tampering with a witness, victim or informant.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC news,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At first, the complaints from workers who'd escaped -- detailing forced labor, privation and torture -- had seemed extraordinary to Rezende.—
Terrence McCoy The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
31 Aug. 2025
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In light of the extraordinary privations and mass killing of Gaza’s civilian population in the current war, Hamas’s external leader, Khaled Meshaal, has likened Gaza to Algeria, where independence was achieved only after the death of more than a million civilians.—
Leila Seurat,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
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And the noticeable dips also don’t come for the generations of players who would be expecting to play their peak years for England during wartime either — note the lack of games in the 1940s in the earlier graph.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The lack of winning has been exactly the problem during the Chuba years at Carolina.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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