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Recent Examples of lamentation One third of the way into Katie Kitamura’s 2017 novel, A Separation, its narrator asks an elderly Greek woman to demonstrate a traditional funeral lamentation. Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025 There have been lamentations about the end of an era and anxiety in the fan and creative communities about the risk of over-exploitation of the British super-spy. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025 The van pulled into the street, and the crowd followed, muttering lamentations. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lamentation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamentation
Noun
  • Thousands of cell phone lights and ear-piercing wails accompanied it.
    Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • So, Nan is nowhere near over Guy, and making things more awkward, Theo can hear his wife’s wails on the other side of the door.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Texas stands united in mourning and in our resolve to support those who strive to heal and recover.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 9 July 2025
  • Beneath the inevitable finger-pointing and politicizing, there is often a genuine, even desperate, human impulse to find fault not out of malice, but out of mourning and a desire to find solutions.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Without prompting, Cora then offered a lament regarding the state of the All-Star Game today.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025
  • For years, the lament has been clear: why are Texas tales filmed elsewhere?
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • While Bowie envisioned an Earth careening toward apocalypse in a flamboyant, theatrical cry, Drake’s five leaves are quieter, lonelier — more like the end of a season than the end of a world.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025
  • Advertisement For Democrats, the speech served as a rallying cry against Trump’s legislation and as a broader indictment of his second-term priorities and the Republican majority’s alignment with them.
    Nik Popli, Time, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • But Barham plays the role both for plaints and for boasts.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • Gay’s plaint is a variation of the good speakers are born belief.
    Jerry Weissman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025

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“Lamentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamentation. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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