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Recent Examples of elegy
Public Theater Else Went’s epic elegy to the great loves and losses of high school captured a certain moment — the precarious turn of the millennium — and a certain kind of teenage terror and heartache with precision and compassion.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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For example, 53% of respondents say that mess and clutter are always in full sight, and 33% lament that noise travels easily in an open kitchen.—
Terri Williams,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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His suggestion drew scores of hosannahs from followers on X, who shared his lament that the magazine had become too critical of the industry and its leaders.—
Jonathan Weber,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
Noun
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This offers respite from the music ever feeling too dirge-like.—
Brendan Hay,
SPIN,
1 May 2026
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The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The reason for the requiem Pulse was an Orlando gay bar where, on June 12, 2016, gunman Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded another 58.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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The biggest difference is probably how Laurie plays the final requiem.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
4 May 2026
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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