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Recent Examples of elegy
Tom Sturridge, Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and newcomer Luther Ford co-star in this elegy defiantly tethered to life.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Wheatley was born in West Africa before being kidnapped and enslaved, and wrote timeless, staggering lyrics of elegy and Biblical allusion while enduring the bondage of slavery.
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Time,
12 May 2026
It was written in part as an elegy for her, in part as an embodiment of the old idea that time can be shaped by strenuous action of the imagination within it.
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Dan Chiasson,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Apr. 2026
To say an elegy by heart/to zero our dying before birth.
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Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Wheatley was born in West Africa before being kidnapped and enslaved, and wrote timeless, staggering lyrics of elegy and Biblical allusion while enduring the bondage of slavery.
—
Time,
12 May 2026
It was written in part as an elegy for her, in part as an embodiment of the old idea that time can be shaped by strenuous action of the imagination within it.
—
Dan Chiasson,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Apr. 2026
To say an elegy by heart/to zero our dying before birth.
—
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
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The coffin was unveiled late on Thursday to a throng of sobbing supporters, who were swaying and beating their heads in time to a sung lament as flowers were thrown from the bier into the crowd.
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His lament mirrored the anguish of legions of Venezuelans who endured harrowing days clearing rubble by hand before crews with heavy equipment and rescue dogs belatedly arrived.
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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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This is the starting point of Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth’s stellar and sweeping science fiction novel that is part cosmic comedy and part dirge to our dying world.
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And for me, ‘Amor Eterno,’ coincidentally also patterns how most requiems start, which is requiem eternum, eternal rest, eternal love.
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The biggest difference is probably how Laurie plays the final requiem.
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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