glad
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She added: “I’m glad authors and publishers could tell Anthropic the obvious: You can’t steal our stuff!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
As I was in the process of leaving it all behind, I was going, “OK, yeah, whoo, glad I made it out of there!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“If this was your partner’s goal and you helped your partner achieve it, I hope you’d feel glad you helped them do what they needed to do.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
While the press focuses on celebrity award winners, Lawrence says he was glad to showcase people like Michael Akers a "young lad with a disability... who set up a charity advocating for other children".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“I’m glad you’ve agreed to suffer with us, Traveler.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
I’m so glad that you were able to speak to your partner, even if you feared his reaction, and even gladder that you’re both excited about this new baby.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2020
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
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 would be gladder if it were the Hound, Sansa thought.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
"Calvary and Easter Day, Earth's saddest day and gladdest day, Were but one day apart."
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
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
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
Sithence I writ what goeth afore, have we all been rare gladded by Walter’s coming, which was just when the dusk had fallen.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
This is their country mode; but I do ensure thee I had been little gladded for leave to kiss the dust; and it doth yet tickle mine ears whensoever I hear it.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah
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 Bierce, Ambrose
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Holt, Emily Sarah
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 Lathrop, George Parsons
God safely quit her of her Burthen, and With gentle Trauaile, to the gladding of Your Highnesse with an Heire King.
From Henry VIII by Shakespeare, William
