haggard
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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
“Caesar had now been performing for eight years,” Mr. Margolick writes, “and, thin and haggard, wore every week of it . . . it had happened in spurts rather than in increments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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