as in to mourn
to feel or express sorrow for
her grandfather asked her not to wail for him, saying that he had had a good life and was at peace
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On Sunday, Battle’s cousins mourned in a relative’s apartment about a half-mile away from the shooting scene.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
9 Mar. 2025 -
In a statement posted to Instagram Thursday, Parton mourned Dean's death.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
7 Mar. 2025
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Others lament that young people will lose the chance to build up fluid mental math skills while playing: develop number sense, compute sums and products, budget, compare value, think strategically or reason using simple probability.—
Ann Rutledge,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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In a new interview with the U.K.’s The Sunday Times, Russo lamented that popular films’ success at the box office and disproportional losses at the Academy Awards is due to a trend started by the disgraced mogul.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
16 Mar. 2025
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were mistakes that Adams lived to regret.—
Marianne Holdzkom,
The Conversation,
12 Mar. 2025
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Does Phillip regret going for the immediate cash prize and giving David the power to cut him from the game?—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Wail (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wail%20%28for%29. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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