as in laments
a composition expressing one's grief over a loss
the composer's cello concerto was composed as a moving threnody for his late wife
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laments
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The poem ends with the hero’s burial and the laments of his followers.—
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10 Oct. 2025 -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped holding coordination calls on H5N1 with health providers this spring — a change Chin-Hong laments.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Threnodies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threnodies. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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