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Recent Examples of elegy
And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
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Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
The Stalemate is part wacky buddy comedy, part poignant Western elegy – and just straight up a ton of fun.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Lucas’s final film is a kind of elegy for an entire style of personal blockbuster filmmaking, Williams’ funeral music in the last moments fitting for the director’s last moments behind the camera.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
The Stalemate is part wacky buddy comedy, part poignant Western elegy – and just straight up a ton of fun.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Lucas’s final film is a kind of elegy for an entire style of personal blockbuster filmmaking, Williams’ funeral music in the last moments fitting for the director’s last moments behind the camera.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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Perfectionism often gets misunderstood as an unstoppable striving for excellence, a quality that many of us would love to (half-heartedly) lament.—
Caroline Mimbs Nyce,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2025
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Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.—
Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul. Column Unwritten Recipes Chantal Braganza Anyone who’s lived long enough to learn to feed themselves likely has some kind of biographical dish.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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