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Recent Examples of elegy
The film marks his second time grappling with the postmodern author’s ideas on screen, following 2014’s Inherent Vice, a rueful elegy to California counterculture, which was itself the first, and to date only, official adaptation of Pynchon in cinema.
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Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Not every elegy comes in the form of a dying fall.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
The work is at once an elegy, a historical document and a meditation on tests of survival that gay men face.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Not every elegy comes in the form of a dying fall.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
The work is at once an elegy, a historical document and a meditation on tests of survival that gay men face.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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Somehow, in honoring the group’s women, from the rageful housewife Margie (Betsy Aidem) to the radical author Celeste (Kristolyn Lloyd), Flood’s outpouring becomes a lament.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Continue reading … WAR OF WORDS – AOC weighs in after Republican laments 'humiliation' of Mamdani campaigning in Arabic.—
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FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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And that's how a six and a half minute folk dirge with no hook, no guitar solo, and 28 two-line stanzas became a hit.—
NPR,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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At first a dirge, then the tempo rises, and the hymnal swells.—
Jenny Adams,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Duke of York retreated from public life in November 2019 after a car crash interview with the BBC about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, but attended the requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 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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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 9 Dec. 2025.
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