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Recent Examples of bereavement
If your company offers emergency leave for bereavement or illness but not immigration, your policies are not inclusive.
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Jenn Tardy, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Hughes and her husband decided to create a bereavement camp to help children at the beginning of their grieving journey.
—Brian Brant, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Oddly, Oh doesn’t seem to express the bereavement that is Olivia’s reason—or excuse—for withdrawing from the world of men.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Though some private New York employers already offer similar bereavement policies, there’s no across-the-board guarantee at the moment.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
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Jenn Tardy, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Hughes and her husband decided to create a bereavement camp to help children at the beginning of their grieving journey.
—Brian Brant, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Oddly, Oh doesn’t seem to express the bereavement that is Olivia’s reason—or excuse—for withdrawing from the world of men.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Though some private New York employers already offer similar bereavement policies, there’s no across-the-board guarantee at the moment.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bereavement
Noun
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Many Federal Aviation Administration facilities are so critically short on controllers that just a few absences can cause disruptions, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said that more air traffic controllers have been calling in sick since the shutdown began.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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That won’t be the case this season; the Lakers are all-in on Luka heliocentricism, with James’ early absence due to sciatica making that commitment even more necessary.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Not every such deprivation becomes a literal matter of life and death as in the play, but making use of such scenarios enables Shakespeare to highlight more effectively the danger of arbitrary action.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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Why Sleep Matters So Much for Teens Chronic sleep deprivation can impact anyone, including teens, in various ways.—
Kris Ann Valdez,
Parents,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In August, global food security experts said that parts of Gaza were experiencing famine and that severe hunger and privation were widespread there.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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At seventy, Padura is a voice of a generation that endured a long war in Angola and the privations that followed the Soviet collapse.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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But the mob’s relative lack of visibility does not mean it’s gone away.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Barcelona used a mix of zonal and man-marking but struggled when teams exploited their comparalative lack of height and physicality by using players in motion.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Bereavement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereavement. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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