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- noun Plural form of
tragedy .
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Examples
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I know that reporting and filming these tragedies is important.
Hardy Jones: Does Cutting Nets Free Captive Dolphins? Hardy Jones 2010
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I know that reporting and filming these tragedies is important.
Hardy Jones: Does Cutting Nets Free Captive Dolphins? Hardy Jones 2010
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But from Margulies 'perspective, even if she's safe in the studio, enshrining the world's daily tragedies is worthy enough, and an acceptable existential compromise.
Sharon L. Butler: Blast Radius Sharon L. Butler 2010
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But from Margulies 'perspective, even if she's safe in the studio, enshrining the world's daily tragedies is worthy enough, and an acceptable existential compromise.
Sharon L. Butler: Blast Radius Sharon L. Butler 2010
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Our way of sending girls out on dates is not safe, and has resulted in tragedies both physically and emotionally, and yet young people will protest as though they are being sentenced to some horrible life at the mere suggested of familly oriented courtship.
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But from Margulies 'perspective, even if she's safe in the studio, enshrining the world's daily tragedies is worthy enough, and an acceptable existential compromise.
Sharon L. Butler: Blast Radius Sharon L. Butler 2010
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I explained that my understanding of tragedies is that they are stories of noble people who destroy themselves, and he replied that I had a good, Christian understanding of tragedy, but he said further that in his opinion those stories were comedies, in a sense.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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I explained that my understanding of tragedies is that they are stories of noble people who destroy themselves, and he replied that I had a good, Christian understanding of tragedy, but he said further that in his opinion those stories were comedies, in a sense.
Letter from Camp 2008
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As a dramatist, I find him faulty [in] every way: all his characters speak in the same identical language; none of them interest me; his fables ditto; and the conduct of the tragedies is (as far as I have read) always of the same stamp, the same cast-iron work.
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The long-term tragedies, like PTSD from Iraq, the massive cuts in municipal budgets, and the diseases brought on by FEMA end up hidden beneath the surface.
More unseen toll from FEMA mismanagement of Katrina Sinfonian 2008
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