distraught
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The troubles reached a crescendo during the live finale when a distraught Tran revealed that the man she had chosen as her husband-to-be, Devin Strader, had ended their engagement a month before the broadcast.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
The deaths of her grandparents in quick succession left her so distraught — they had raised her — that she never finished her dissertation.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
"We were distraught at the start and now we are angry."
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
Hilda witnesses the crime and is so distraught that her moral certitude temporarily deserts her.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Although he was distraught after his father’s death, he no longer has to look to him for approval.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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