CRIES (FOR) Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

cries (for)

verb

present tense third-person singular of cry (for)

as in grieves (for)

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Musselwhite punctuated the music with his harmonica trills and moans while his right knee bounced in time with the rhythms.

— Kevin McKeough, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
As the video continues, one person can be heard yelling her name while the makeup artist moans in pain.

— Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 21 May 2026

Definition of moans

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Videos posted on Facebook and X show the street preachers speaking with police officers when one of the preachers asks if someone can be cited for misgendering a transgender person.

— Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
Placing a special focus on R&B and new music discovery, Grice often weaves games into his variety show; a particularly viral bit asks guests to sing in a game of word association.

— Rachel Brodsky, Time, 14 July 2026

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Swiss skier Melanie Meillard weeps in the arms of her teammate Janine Schmitt after missing a turn on her slalom run Women’s Team Combined Slalom.

— Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Cannon weeps into an expansive white space that only she and Trish inhabit.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025

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Graham died Saturday at the age of 71, and a medical examiner's preliminary findings suggested the cause was aortic dissection, which involves a tear in the main artery from the heart.

— Major Garrett, CBS News, 13 July 2026
For reference, multiplying a pair of thousand-digit numbers involves a million single-digit multiplications using the grade-school method but fewer than 57,000 using Karatsuba’s algorithm.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026

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