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Recent Examples of elegy
Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.
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Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Not every elegy comes in the form of a dying fall.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elegy
Noun
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If Park’s film begins as another lament for our layoff-laden modern world, the South Korean director soon introduces a sinister twist.—
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Joel Stedifor sent two pictures of his classic 85-year-old Pontiac and shared my lament about the dearth of old, old Pontiac automobiles.—
Noun
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Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.—
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Thanksgiving can be delightful or draining, a festive feast or a dispiriting dirge.—
Noun
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There, he was honored with salutes and a requiem.—
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Finally, 110 words into his statement, Trump closed with a proper requiem for the deceased.—
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“Elegy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegy. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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