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as in grieves
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
we mourned for weeks after our beloved pet's death
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as in laments
to feel or express sorrow for
an editorial that mourns the loss of the town's last movie theater
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Recent Examples of mourns
The passage echoes Whitehead’s response to 9/11, as Carney mourns the neighborhood that the Twin Towers would supplant.
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Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Civil rights advocates liken Kohen Wiley’s death to other Black lives lost after minor accusations, as experts question firing into moving cars and investigators review footage while his family mourns.
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Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Community mourns two students Nair and Sran, who both graduated from Washington High School in Fremont before attending college, leave behind a community in mourning, Salwan said.
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Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
Shanahan family Skydiving community mourns This region of Missouri, near the Kansas border, is a popular skydiving area, according to Northern Bates County Commissioner John Gray.
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Selina Guevara,
NBC news,
15 June 2026
Sports world mourns after college football prospect found dead on campus at age 20.
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FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
Art eventually processes its history—mourns it, rather.
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Jonathan Odden,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Amid playoff cheering hockey mourns the suicide of Claude Lemieux at 60.
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Greg Cote
may 31,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2026
Family mourns after crash The GoFundMe fundraiser said Gemeda and his wife came from Dembidolo, Ethiopia, less than a year ago and were in the process of settling their lives in Kansas.
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Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Civil rights advocates liken Kohen Wiley’s death to other Black lives lost after minor accusations, as experts question firing into moving cars and investigators review footage while his family mourns.
—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Community mourns two students Nair and Sran, who both graduated from Washington High School in Fremont before attending college, leave behind a community in mourning, Salwan said.
—
Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
Shanahan family Skydiving community mourns This region of Missouri, near the Kansas border, is a popular skydiving area, according to Northern Bates County Commissioner John Gray.
—
Selina Guevara,
NBC news,
15 June 2026
Sports world mourns after college football prospect found dead on campus at age 20.
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FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
Art eventually processes its history—mourns it, rather.
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Jonathan Odden,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Amid playoff cheering hockey mourns the suicide of Claude Lemieux at 60.
—
Greg Cote
may 31,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2026
Family mourns after crash The GoFundMe fundraiser said Gemeda and his wife came from Dembidolo, Ethiopia, less than a year ago and were in the process of settling their lives in Kansas.
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Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mourns
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Each person grieves differently.
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The Professor, with only her ex-partner’s cat for company, sits in her decaying apartment and grieves the loss of her relationship and her struggle with infertility.
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James Jeansonne, who works in marketing at a company in Columbus, Ohio, laments the loss of Spirit.
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Here’s the latest harrowing dispatch from the frontlines of education, as yet another higher education instructor laments that his pupils literally can’t read.
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The club’s owner, Willie Dann, said he is horrified by what has happened recently and regrets ever hiring Kerlew.
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But on a certain level, Van Gundy will always be a Knicks lifer who regrets resigning from the team a quarter century ago and who was interested in his old job when David Fizdale and Tom Thibodeau were hired instead.
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“Mourns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mourns. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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