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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mourn.

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Examples

  • HAMMER: And I think you have to agree with me that the world kind of mourned when Tina Fey retired her Sarah wig and glasses because she needed to get back to her day job as Liz Lemon on NBC ` s "30 Rock."

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009 2009

  • HAMMER: And I think you have to agree with me that the world kind of mourned when Tina Fey retired her Sarah wig and glasses because she needed to get back to her day job as Liz Lemon on NBC ` s "30 Rock."

    CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009 2009

  • They broke with the past by organizing a multi-day happening, The Death of Hippie and the Birth of the Free Man, which "mourned" the passing of "Hippie, devoted son of Mass Media" on the first anniversary of the criminalization of LSD.

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • He was "mourned," by those who "survived" him, as people are not mourned in cities, that is, frankly, in a manner undisguised.

    Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

  • I kind of mourned not being able to live an uncomplicated life when I first found out I had Thyroid disease and then again with Diabeties ..

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2010

  • "mourned" the formation of the "TRNC" in 1983 by saying, "I cried because of the damage it would do to the Turkish Cypriot people".

    Greek News 2010

  • In the summer of 2009 I attended the magnificent memorial service for Ted, and I mourned his death deeply.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • In the summer of 2009 I attended the magnificent memorial service for Ted, and I mourned his death deeply.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • In the summer of 2009 I attended the magnificent memorial service for Ted, and I mourned his death deeply.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • During his time, he was regarded as a treasured healer and humble human being, and the people loved him and mourned his death with great sorrow.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

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