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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry (for)
Verb
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Lee audibly choked up during songs, and fans openly wept during the Peart tributes.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2026 -
Anthony wept during her testimony.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
9 June 2026
Verb
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According to sources, Thomas was asked to appear as well but ultimately decided not to participate.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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He was confronted with the accusation on the course and was asked to leave, the outlet reported.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
Verb
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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
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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
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Their real estate agent practically begged them to walk away, but Caitlin Mociun and Tammer Hijazi couldn’t shake the feeling that an oddball listing in Upstate New York had potential.—
Morgan Goldberg,
Architectural Digest,
11 Dec. 2025
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Father and daughter have not spoken since the paparazzi scandal but Meghan did send him a letter in August 2018 begging him to stop giving interviews to the media.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Even after losses, Reid rarely regrets in-game decisions publicly — and so his tone Sunday night was somewhat unusual.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Dec. 2025
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Patel regretted not taking advantage of a previous employer’s offer to cover egg freezing costs, especially because the procedure is not a firm guarantee of having children.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2025
Verb
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But the viewers who moaned about struggling to hear the opening-ceremony performance could have easily filled in the blanks.—
Jon O'Brien,
Vulture,
11 June 2026
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And yes, that sound will dissipate and soon will be too faint for my human ears as it is absorbed into space, but Renee Gladman writes that spaces moan.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
Verb
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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
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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 18 Jun. 2026.
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