glad
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Toland added: "Her kindness and patience during those years is a resource I carry with me always and I'm so glad she is a part of my life."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
I wasn’t champing at the bit to see another production of “Ma Rainey’s,” but I’m glad I didn’t miss this latest Wilson revival at A Noise Within, directed by Gregg T. Daniel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I’m glad for you,” I tell her, my voice full of emotion.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Nobody is gladder for Rosen, Donoghue, and Engel than constitutional democracy is today.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2022
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’m glad enough about that for her, but I’m even gladder because this kind of food doesn’t remind me of anything.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Your beautiful daughter, who is now celebrating the gladdest day of her existence, is so like a maiden whom I knew and adored in my youth, that I could reckon it a miracle.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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
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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
But I find not the angel in any wise gladded with the same.
From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt
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
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 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
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
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