requiem

ˈre-kwē-əm
as in lament
a composition expressing one's grief over a loss the choir will sing Mozart's Requiem

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for requiem
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  • This map is a lament, but also an attempt to perform a restoration, to imagine the nonviolent future after the war has ended when these institutions can be rebuilt.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Told through empathetic interviews with his bandmates and family, Struebing’s ordeal becomes a tale of partial redemption and a lament about the failure of our justice system to meet the mental-health needs of people caught up in it.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • The film marks his second time grappling with the postmodern author’s ideas on screen, following 2014’s Inherent Vice, a rueful elegy to California counterculture, which was itself the first, and to date only, official adaptation of Pynchon in cinema.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • Further down the lineup, Friday has Bieber collaborator and indie fave Dijon alongside the melodic dirges of Ethel Cain.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Season 3 finale of the sci-fi series delivers on that promise, unfolding with the solemn rhythm of a funeral dirge.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Requiem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requiem. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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