ˈre-kwē-əm
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Recent Examples of requiem
No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.
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Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
The Last Showgirl is a requiem for any woman who has ever been underestimated because of her beauty, her choices, or her art (so, essentially, every woman ever to exist).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
As part of the ongoing requiem over the JCPOA’s all-but-certain demise, policymakers are trying to craft a Plan B.
—Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023
That changed to a requiem when Mays suddenly passed away at 93 on Tuesday.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
The Last Showgirl is a requiem for any woman who has ever been underestimated because of her beauty, her choices, or her art (so, essentially, every woman ever to exist).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
As part of the ongoing requiem over the JCPOA’s all-but-certain demise, policymakers are trying to craft a Plan B.
—Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023
That changed to a requiem when Mays suddenly passed away at 93 on Tuesday.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for requiem
Noun
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My own experience and reality invalidated and denied, which in her heart today would be a very painful lament.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2025
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This episode was just like that, a lot of quick dancing, jazz hands, and even a lament sung by Shauhin, just for the most boring and obvious thing to happen in the end.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
Noun
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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.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Lucas’s final film is a kind of elegy for an entire style of personal blockbuster filmmaking, Williams’ funeral music in the last moments fitting for the director’s last moments behind the camera.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Over time, dirge came to mean a funeral song or lament.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Requiem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requiem. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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