ELEGIZED Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

elegized

verb

past tense of elegize

as in wailed (for)

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Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Riley Green, and more mourned Anderson, and honored the Country Music Hall of Fame member’s generational talent.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
Dustin Hada, the head coach of Southern Nazarene’s football program, also mourned the loss of his player on social media.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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Daunt deplored the dingy norm of London’s independent bookstores and spent months keying up his lighting.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky, who co-founded Yabloko in the 1990s and chairs its political committee, deplored the court’s ruling in an online statement.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026

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The shift may have been good for business, but users often lamented that lack of control, complaining that the recommendation algorithms could send them down rabbit holes of irrelevant or even toxic content.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Though Las Vegas rallied to tie the game in the fourth, Cousins lamented what that sequence in the third meant to the outcome.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026

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