1.   With loneliness and solitude, that tragedy has become her fate.

2.   And so, this time, the tragedy becomes a caveat that monitors our middle-class days and nights.

3.   A spokesman for the Gun Owners Action League lamented that the tragedy might become a public debate on gun control.

4.   He said the tragedies become just a part of life, not life itself.

5.   In presumed death, as well, their tragedy inevitably becomes a national obsession.

6.   Once again, an isolated tragedy has somehow become a metaphor for life.

7.   That tragedy became a part of the miracle.

8.   The Littleton tragedy quickly became the dominant topic in Internet chat rooms and discussion groups geared to teens.

9.   When causality appears so mushy, tragedy becomes impossible.

10.   What would once have been a tragedy had become, in the perverse calculus of war, good fortune.