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"We are glad that Rooppur is known to the world, and my friends and I hope that we will work at the plant after graduating from engineering schools," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

I should be glad to see all of them retire and succeeded, doubtless, by fresh cliché-mongers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Michael Lichtman, 59, a longtime livestream watcher, was glad he drove up from Carlsbad and experienced the camaraderie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

He said he was "glad" to have frozen fuel duty until the end of the year and brought 'fuel finder' apps to help people find the cheapest petrol stations.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Things will never be exactly the same, but I’m glad Skye wants to try.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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 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

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

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

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

Of all the glad New Years this is to me the gladdest.

From The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

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

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

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

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

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 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

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

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