; weeping
Edward Gibbon
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
The cartoonish Southerner can feel like the product of a closed conversation between outsiders, people whose claim to the region is summers spent under weeping willows in the well-to-do parts of Charleston, S.C.
—New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Thuraya’s wife, Soraya, buried her head in his pillow and wept.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
Fittingly, the track harkens back to that late-90s/turn-of-the-millenium sound, with a somber, twinkling guitar weeping behind booming pop production.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
The interview ends with the former broadcaster weeping into the arms of her manager, Will Shelby.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024
Capote lends Babe an ear and a shoulder to weep on, ultimately advising her not to get a divorce.
—Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
Frank, eight years Robert’s junior, wept when his older brother left for graduate school in Europe.
—Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
Most people there were openly weeping, some breaking down upon seeing Navalny’s portrait on his tombstone, submerged by heaps of roses and carnations.
—Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan; akin to Old High German wuoffan to weep, Serbian & Croatian vapiti to cry out
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Weep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weep. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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