ˈre-kwē-əm
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Recent Examples of requiem
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.
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.
—Mathew Holloway, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.
—Mathew Holloway, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for requiem
Noun
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Perfectionism often gets misunderstood as an unstoppable striving for excellence, a quality that many of us would love to (half-heartedly) lament.—
Caroline Mimbs Nyce,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Much of the chapter is like an elegy to what would be lost.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Vo’s ongoing examination of empire and identity unfolds here as both monument and elegy.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2025
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“Requiem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requiem. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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