heartbreak
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"There are no words that can truly describe the heartbreak and devastation his parents, sisters and our whole family are experiencing," Jones said on the fund-raiser page.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Thirty years since Berger, Smicer, Poborsky and Nedved endured their north London heartbreak, the creaking old stadium has long ago been substituted out and replaced by a Wembley fit for the 21st Century.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
As with many Alzheimer’s patients, they don’t believe they are changing, which intensifies the heartbreak of those who love and care for them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
This exemplary drama of intrigue and heartbreak closes with “a gentle scene, on an island with a history of violence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Mostly it was just me, chronicling heartbreak the only way I knew how.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
Anyone who's listened to Rodrigo's first two albums, 2021's Sour and 2023's Guts, knows the singer has endured a few calamitous heartbreaks, approaching them with a mix of anguish, confusion and feminine rage.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Yet even Honor is cowed by the household’s steely Yugoslav maid, Greta, who dismisses all heartbreaks and hysterics with the motto, “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
His voice - bruised, buttery and intimate - has been an inescapable undercurrent of Bollywood, narrating heartbreaks, longings and reconciliations for millions for more than a decade.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
I didn’t get nearly enough corn or tomatoes, and heartbreak of heartbreaks, I missed the figs completely.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025
The blessing is that these heartbreaks are but a few of the patches in my prairie year quilt.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
