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Activists covered in fake blood have wailed during city council meetings in Ojai in recent months, and many more have followed President Biden during his campaign stops across the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Oh, Maaare! as Rhoda undoubtedly would have wailed with a mixture of pain, sympathy and gentle reproach.

From Time Magazine Archive

So educators have wailed at the top of their lungs since early in Depression.

From Time Magazine Archive

I would have wailed along with them, but I knew Pa’s mind was set.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

I have wailed, I have wept, till my heart is sore; I am weary and tired, I can weep no more!

From Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans by Orbeck, Anders