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CRI

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abbreviation

  1. Crown Research Institutes

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In both cases, it was hard to not admire the candor amid agony: Malinin for standing up and plainly admitting he “blew it,” Vonn for her blunt cri de cœur from her hospital bed: “I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.”

From The Wall Street Journal

This was not just a cri de coeur against ICE.

From Slate

McDonald was given the impossible task of performing “Rose’s Turn” on the telecast, her character’s Lear-like cri de cœur in song.

From Los Angeles Times

In any case he concludes with this rousing cri de guerre:

From Salon

A cri de coeur then, from beyond the grave.

From Los Angeles Times