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Recent Examples of elegy
Hynes’ stirring melodies sew together Essex Honey’s styles and collaborators—including Caroline Polachek, Tirzah, and cellist Mabe Fratti—into a profound and elegantly understated tapestry of elegy, memory, and surprise.
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Sorkin’s brand of idealism suddenly felt like science fiction — an elegy for a republic that mistook grift for governance.
—Alexis Coe, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
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Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Sorkin’s brand of idealism suddenly felt like science fiction — an elegy for a republic that mistook grift for governance.
—Alexis Coe, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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The changes are a source of both lament and ambivalence.—
Naomi Jackson,
Curbed,
11 Feb. 2026
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There is inward-looking anger in Thompson’s voice, halfway between rebuke and lament.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The temperature plunges; Reilly’s trills harden into an Old World dirge.—
Brad Shoup,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2026
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Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There, he was honored with salutes and a requiem.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 Dec. 2025
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Finally, 110 words into his statement, Trump closed with a proper requiem for the deceased.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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