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Recent Examples of bereavement
Scotty’s provides a range of services to its members around the world, including 1:1 bereavement support sessions, which can make a huge difference to a family.
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Simon Perry, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Booking travel can be stressful, but when dealing with the loss of a loved one, arranging bereavement plans could make matters worse.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2024
And so Cormac found Angelica’s bereavement group and landed on vulnerable widow Grace as his best target for extortion.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Most of the two dozen men competing for Joan’s affections, who are between 57 and 69, have experienced bereavement or devastating heartbreak.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Simon Perry, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Booking travel can be stressful, but when dealing with the loss of a loved one, arranging bereavement plans could make matters worse.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2024
And so Cormac found Angelica’s bereavement group and landed on vulnerable widow Grace as his best target for extortion.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Most of the two dozen men competing for Joan’s affections, who are between 57 and 69, have experienced bereavement or devastating heartbreak.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
Noun
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Miles McBride or Cameron Payne will likely step in and be the starting point guard in Brunson’s absence.—
James L. Edwards III,
The Athletic,
8 Mar. 2025
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With all due respect to the great Patricia Arquette, the character wasn’t especially missed in her absence, as her villainy and zealotry have tended to be written in a more one-dimensional way than how Severance portrays those same broad ideas with Milchick.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Daylight Saving Time and Decision Making Sleep researchers warn that sleep deprivation can severely impact those who make critical decisions, including managers, military commanders, and politicians.—
Lieke ten Brummelhuis,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Sleep deprivation comes with real costs Chronic sleep deprivation does more than leave people tired.—
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Economic privation could further encourage violent competition between Syrian armed groups over territory and revenues.—
Sam Heller,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2024
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But envisioning the privation that followed, with Panguna shut down, requires little imagination.—
Sean Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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While winds will be much weaker and temperatures much cooler, dry vegetation due to lack of recent rainfall combined with the dry air will once again enhance the wildfire danger across the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Mar. 2025
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Rubin: There was a surprising lack of campiness to this whole thing.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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