as in to mourn
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
we all grieved over the lost cat
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Recent Examples of grieve
Arepas and coffee anchor impromptu support circles, as grieving customers cling to fragile hope for the missing.
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Melody Xu,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.
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Jack Dura,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Both defense attorneys had argued that the parents are not a danger to the community and continue to grieve the loss of their son.
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Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
2 July 2026
The teams concentrated their excavation on that single signal and brought him out alive—one of the rescues that gave a grieving country a reason to keep digging.
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Luis E. Romero,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
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Melody Xu,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.
—
Jack Dura,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Both defense attorneys had argued that the parents are not a danger to the community and continue to grieve the loss of their son.
—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
2 July 2026
The teams concentrated their excavation on that single signal and brought him out alive—one of the rescues that gave a grieving country a reason to keep digging.
—
Luis E. Romero,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for grieve
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grieve
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On Sunday, tens of thousands of men and women gathered in separate sections to mourn Khamenei’s death.
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Readers mourned Bill Spoon’s BBQ, which fed generations before shutting during the pandemic in 2020, and Bubba’s Barbecue on Sunset Road, which closed in January 2026 after 40 years of Eastern North Carolina-style ‘cue.
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Symptoms resemble other types of pneumonia and can include fever, chills, muscle aches, and cough.
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome causes fatigue, fever, muscle aches, abdominal problems, headaches, chills and dizziness in the early stages, and late symptoms include chest tightness, coughing, shortness of breath and lungs filling with fluid.
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While that same sun will always rise in the East and set in the West, the work of these artists affirms that each new day is ours to make anew — no matter what sorrows may lay behind us.
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“Grieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grieve. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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