forlorn
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Near a bulldozer, the forlorn husk of a car hunkered in the midst of a store’s wreckage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
He performed a backflip for the crowd's entertainment, but it seemed like a forlorn call to the good times of only last week.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
Nothing but dirt and dry, brown chaparral rolled beneath skis and snowboards dangling from a chairlift at Big Bear Mountain Resort on Friday, as forlorn adventure seekers joked they should rename the place “Big Bare.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
“America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
That was a goal that could be reached, barely, if the Rockefeller Foundation, the university, and private industry all contributed; at least, he remarked later, it would be “not an entirely forlorn hope.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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