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Recent Examples of bereavement
But even apart from recent budget cuts, there is a notable absence of national policies that reflect what loss actually looks like: expanded bereavement leave, sustained mental health funding, and public acknowledgment of collective trauma.
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Rebecca Soffer, Time, 10 May 2025
Most companies aren’t equipped to handle grief and loss in the workplace, as is evidenced by the standard bereavement leave being only about three to five days.
—Holly Corbett, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
But still, friends rarely get bereavement leave, our relationships aren’t often given space on a tombstone epitaph, and there are few books, support groups, or films about the loss of friends.
—Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2025
While the politics of health and care do not always map onto war and its metaphors, public health is messy when new and virulent diseases take over a country in bereavement.
—Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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Rebecca Soffer, Time, 10 May 2025
Most companies aren’t equipped to handle grief and loss in the workplace, as is evidenced by the standard bereavement leave being only about three to five days.
—Holly Corbett, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
But still, friends rarely get bereavement leave, our relationships aren’t often given space on a tombstone epitaph, and there are few books, support groups, or films about the loss of friends.
—Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2025
While the politics of health and care do not always map onto war and its metaphors, public health is messy when new and virulent diseases take over a country in bereavement.
—Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
Noun
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Kansas City fans took note of Erceg’s absence Wednesday in the Royals’ 3-2 win over the Reds.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
30 May 2025
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However, in the absence of primary health care programs in many low- and middle-income countries, early detection and, at times, proper medical treatment is not always a possibility.—
Ramsha Waseem,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
Noun
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But the boys also casually tell stories about the deprivations of their previous life, a reminder of how unusual their childhoods have been by American standards.—
Sacha Pfeiffer,
NPR,
27 May 2025
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The problem with plastic is the deprivation of oxygen to the roots since there is no air circulating into the sides of the basket.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
24 May 2025
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Out of the privation, the challenge, and the censure of slavery and the unfulfilled promise of post-Reconstruction justice, Black musicians embraced experimentation and innovation, ingenuity and joy, and a multigenerational call and response speaking truth to power that endures to the present day.—
Elizabeth Alexander,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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As a prisoner of war, Morris R. Wills faced a gamut of privations—he was left malnourished and consigned to filthy conditions amid the ever-present threat of execution.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Most troubling is a lack of true concern or remedies for a huge problem for America, our national debt, and the service on that $36 trillion debt, which amounts to almost a trillion dollars a year.—
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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Brandon Bell/Getty Images What To Know A chronic lack of inventory, partially due to the fact that homebuilders in the U.S. significantly underbuilt in the years following the 2008 crash, contributed to bringing U.S. home prices through the roof in recent years.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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