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glad

[glad] / glæd /


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I’m incredibly glad I decided to educate myself financially, and even happier that I decided to go back to school.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

Most employers in that area were glad to have Haitian workers, even if they didn’t talk about it in the press.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2026

"Both Mr Kushner and Mr Witkoff are always welcome guests here, and we are glad to work with them," he said, describing them as "sincere".

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

“I’m really glad they get to do some R&R here.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

He seemed glad to leave the room, but he turned up one side of his mouth before he went to the back.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

I was even gladder to see his look of awe, his happy suspension of disbelief in the face of such adult wizardry.

From The New Yorker Oct. 29, 2019

No holdouts, which makes Carroll’s heart even gladder.

From Seattle Times Jul. 30, 2016

And in the end I'm gladder that I watched it than I would be if it hadn't been made in the first place.

From Slate Dec. 20, 2012

I am glad to have finally seen it, but gladder still that my bed is not a bus ride away.

From The Guardian Jul. 25, 2010

I was glad that Polly had found his proper place in the world but gladder still that it was not with us.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Across the land this Christmas season, churches old and new, grand or unpretentious, prepare for the gladdest occasion of the Christian calendar.

From Time Magazine Archive

For many an entrepreneurial Pop the gladdest moment of a lifetime is when his No.1 son enters the family firm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Famed in Los Angeles as the gladdest glad-hander of them all, Norris Poulson made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Yorty.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had run over to me and was standing down below with the gladdest face.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

If he only would! it would be the gladdest sound she had ever heard.

From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh

The doctor waved his hand to the Royal Orchestra, who immediately struck up with Jesu Christes Milde Moder—since Dr. Bartholomew’s book had recommended that madmen should be gladded with instruments.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Now, I saw in my dream, that He spake many good words unto them, whereby they were greatly gladded.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Let me think of building castles in Spain, my imagination will forge me commodities and afford means 164and delights wherewith my mind is really tickled and essentially gladded.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Hence I took a thought This was a judgement on me; that my kingdom, Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not Be gladded in't by me.

From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and somedeal be occupied.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

And God give you to know Christ, and send us a happy meeting in that His blessed habitation, unto the great gladding of your most loving and dutiful daughter, Margery Marnell.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

Oh, noble is the knotted oak, And sweet the gush of sylvan streams, And good the great sun's gladding beams, The blush of life upon the field, The silent might that mountains wield.

From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop

God safely quit her of her burden, and With gentle travail, to the gladding of Your Highness with an heir!

From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

One day she saw below her in the forest a dear gazelle, gladding her with its soft black eye.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce

But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?

From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père




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