glad
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Finally, a job most anyone would be glad to see lost to AI: flossing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
"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
But I also follow high school sports and am glad to see Eric get the recognition he deserves for covering high school sports for 50 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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
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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
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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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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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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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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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When the party returned from the West the person gladdest to see Ruth Fielding was Aunt Alvirah.
From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson
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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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
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
The guests be gladded with lutes and harps.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele
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 burden, and With gentle travail, to the gladding of Your Highness with an heir!
From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
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
But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?
From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
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