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Recent Examples of bereavement
Miranda is so full of possibility and adventure and what’s going to come next, and Ada is trying so hard to be that way and to fill the deep well of her sadness and her loneliness and her bereavement with things like the Temperance movement.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 June 2025
Many funeral homes demand that business be done in person, and online services are fragmented and focused on specific aspects of the bereavement process such as purchasing a casket or flowers.
—Paul Klein, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
The latter is the killer, Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), an otherwise ordinary man: husband, father, respected bereavement therapist.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 1 June 2025
Palliative care can have five stages (stable, unstable, deteriorating, terminal, and bereavement), but not all individuals progress to all the stages, and the stages may be experienced in a different order.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 June 2025
Many funeral homes demand that business be done in person, and online services are fragmented and focused on specific aspects of the bereavement process such as purchasing a casket or flowers.
—Paul Klein, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
The latter is the killer, Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), an otherwise ordinary man: husband, father, respected bereavement therapist.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 1 June 2025
Palliative care can have five stages (stable, unstable, deteriorating, terminal, and bereavement), but not all individuals progress to all the stages, and the stages may be experienced in a different order.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
Noun
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New York played a small starting unit with Stewart at center to account for the absence of Jonquel Jones.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 July 2025
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After her first two England camps in charge in September 2021, Wiegman — in the absence of former England captain Steph Houghton — handed Williamson the armband.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
5 July 2025
Noun
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In Five Minutes Sleep deprivation affects millions of Americans, with approximately 70 million people suffering from chronic sleep problems according to health authorities.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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Without this phase of sleep, horses can suffer from REM deprivation, leading to drowsiness and even collapse.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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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
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As a result, the carbon dioxide isn't replenished and, along with other mechanisms like the solar winds and the lack of magnetic field, the result was a feedback process that bled off more and more of the atmosphere as more and more of the carbon dioxide was sealed in the minerals.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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President Donald Trump toured the flood site Friday, while officials faced mounting criticism over the lack of emergency warnings about quickly rising waters that killed at least 120 people, including over two dozen at an all-girls summer camp.—
Grace Miserocchi,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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