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Recent Examples of weeper
But even the weepers are growing tired of carrying this weight.
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Emily Temple
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
The weepers, as well as anyone who comes into contact with the Kid, are given a new understanding of the true sorrows and emotions that a heart can hold.
—Emily Temple
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
The onset of a deep romantic bond proves as terrifying here as the apparent loss of love chronicled in past weepers.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2025
Our front yard swarmed with mourners, some weeping like children, others consoling the weepers, and the rest loudly reciting verses from the Quran, in memoriam to Uncle Usama.
—Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Their brand was chaos: live shows that were transcendent or tragicomic depending on the drugs involved; albums that interpolated brilliant Stones-adjacent youth anthems and devastating country weepers with slapdash Kiss covers and improvised jams where no one played their actual instrument.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
The track was reasonably dry and occasional weepers weren’t the only problem.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
Even if the rain abates, old asphalt is notoriously difficult to dry because of weepers — the moisture that collects under the surface and then seeps through the cracks after a rainfall.
—Greg Beacham, ajc, 26 Feb. 2023
Of course, Fender wasn’t singing about a Xanax habit in his 1975 weeper.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
Emily Temple
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
The weepers, as well as anyone who comes into contact with the Kid, are given a new understanding of the true sorrows and emotions that a heart can hold.
—Emily Temple
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
The onset of a deep romantic bond proves as terrifying here as the apparent loss of love chronicled in past weepers.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2025
Our front yard swarmed with mourners, some weeping like children, others consoling the weepers, and the rest loudly reciting verses from the Quran, in memoriam to Uncle Usama.
—Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Their brand was chaos: live shows that were transcendent or tragicomic depending on the drugs involved; albums that interpolated brilliant Stones-adjacent youth anthems and devastating country weepers with slapdash Kiss covers and improvised jams where no one played their actual instrument.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
The track was reasonably dry and occasional weepers weren’t the only problem.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
Even if the rain abates, old asphalt is notoriously difficult to dry because of weepers — the moisture that collects under the surface and then seeps through the cracks after a rainfall.
—Greg Beacham, ajc, 26 Feb. 2023
Of course, Fender wasn’t singing about a Xanax habit in his 1975 weeper.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weeper
Noun
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Khang pulled a fairway wood and launched a low screamer through the trees.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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The abuse was picked up by mobile phones and television operators that covered the match, and appeared to take place as Lamine celebrated a screamer on his supposedly weaker right foot by turning his back to the home crowd and pointing to the name emblazoned across his Blaugrana shirt.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Noun
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If whining were an Olympic sport, Finland, Denmark and Sweden might as well skip the competition, because the U.S. surely would sweep the podium with an elite lineup of crybaby football coaches.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
3 Apr. 2025
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This is the gold star of silent crybabies, heaped high with silent scorn, disapproval and frustration, all at once.—
John Bowe, Contributor,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Weeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weeper. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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