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Recent Examples of elegy
Initially buried by its studio, this trickily ambiguous thriller feels like an elegy for the seventies and was later recouped as one of the best films of its era.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Worm’s visualization of his collection, then, is an unwitting elegy of species pushed to the brink of existence by human pressures.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Worm’s visualization of his collection, then, is an unwitting elegy of species pushed to the brink of existence by human pressures.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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Deeply layered and emotionally charged, the work reads like a visual lament, for what’s been lost, what still remains, and the unresolved stories that continue to flow beneath the surface.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Unfortunately, Curl laments they’re destined for the donation bin.—
Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Over time, dirge came to mean a funeral song or lament.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Returnal Returnal was one of the first exclusives of the PS5 generation; a fabulously grotesque sci-fi horror dirge, and still worth your attention today.—
Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The album thematically focuses on the idea of the afterlife in both a literal and figurative sense, with a touch of Carlile's anecdotal songwriting and requiems for artists' past.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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