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haggard

[hag-erd] / ˈhæg ərd /


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Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a cloying haze.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

I have heard from haggard, decrepit millennials that it used to be different, that it used to be grungy and alternative.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

At the end of the film, Matt Damon’s haggard Odysseus sails toward the unknown, accepting that he doesn’t deserve the comfort of a king.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Footage of the Palestinian detainees being released into Gaza, wearing gray prison sweatsuits, shows them looking haggard and thinner compared with photos taken before they were detained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

The visitors were dinted and haggard and dusty, yet the standard they carried was the lion of Lannister, golden on its crimson field.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin


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