glad
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Norton said he has mixed feelings about the deal but is glad the span is opening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Their mum died recently, but both say they are glad she got to be reunited with her son.
From BBC ● 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
“When 227 became a television series, I fought to make sure my character had a husband. I’m so glad I did,” she added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
It was much noisier than Clare was accustomed to, and for once, he felt glad of his single good ear.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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 made the resolution; gladder that I kept to it.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
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
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
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
The next morning was indeed a brilliant one—the earth refreshed by rain, the verdure more brilliant, the mountain streams grown fuller; all the landscape seemed to shine forth in its gladdest features.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
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 Bunyan, John
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
This news so gladded the heart of Corydon, that he should not be put out of his farm, that putting off his shepherd's bonnet, he did her all the reverence that he might.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and somedeal be occupied.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
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
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
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
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
But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
