cry (for)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry (for)
Verb
  • Some saluted, others wept and some bowed their heads as the casket, draped in the American flag, was carried to the front of the stage.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2025
  • My filet was cooked to a picture-perfect medium with a shock of glistening butter weeping down the sides.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • Unexpectedly, Bex asks Lizzie to exclusively interview her about her ranch and influencing career.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Related, ask any already empathetic Nashville singer-songwriter about the value of consistently showing up in writing rooms.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Her lack of emotion baffles the people around her, who expect, or even require, keening expressions of grief.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The aunties kneel and sway and hug on the living-room floor, keening dramatically one minute, chuckling over their cellphones the next.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Continue reading … 'DON’T DO IT' – 'The View' host begs music legend to snub Trump's Kennedy Center honor.
    , FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • His home run in Milwaukee last October likely kept him in a Mets uniform this season, with the fans begging the club to sign their homegrown hero.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Air Canada deeply regrets the inconvenience for its customers.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
  • But for many in the IDF, including chief of staff Gen. Eyal Zamir, Netanyahu’s plan runs the risk of plunging Israeli troops into an occupation of the Palestinian enclave that Netanyahu’s predecessors came to regret.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But in peacetime, the nation often retreats into suspicion: frowning on success, moaning about profit, and wrapping ambition in red tape.
    London Business School, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The sound of a heavy machine motor moaned from a tractor evening out the soil covering an oval enclosure, about the size of a football field.
    Jon-Michael Banks, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2025
Verb
  • The trope tends to elegize artists who are perceived to be ahead of their time or otherwise inimical to regnant conventions.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • Spielberg h as chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing.
    Eliza Berman, Time, 5 Oct. 2017
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“Cry (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cry%20%28for%29. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.

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