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Recent Examples of hallelujah
Noun
Read: What parents of boys should know Hess does all of this without sharing a drop of advice—hallelujah.—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025 Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah.—Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024 For me, especially as an A&R person, that’s hallelujah: Let the creative lead and the rest will follow.—Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024 Get The Recipe 10 of 40 Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad
What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?—Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2024 There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable.—Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024 And, as the hoarse hallelujahs from their fans illustrated, the Lakers now have some new magic of their own.—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 At end times, will there be a chorus of hallelujahs or ...—David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023 This bike even features a fan—hallelujah.—Diana Kelly Levey, Health, 20 Feb. 2023
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.
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Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Over time, dirge came to mean a funeral song or lament.
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.
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Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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.
The long-standing lament that Latin American conservatives, centrists, and leftists share is that whereas the United States comes to the region to punish and lecture, China comes to trade.
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Will Freeman,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2025
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.
The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.
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Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
The faithful will recite several religious verses, including psalm 22, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ during the service.
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