forlorn
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“America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Auger-Aliassime reeled off five successive games against an increasingly forlorn Bublik, taking his first match point with a thumping cross-court forehand.
From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025
Hamilton, delayed by his penalty, with which he vehemently disagreed over the radio, was a rather forlorn eighth, with Ocon and Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto completing the top 10.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
That Love identified no sadness in the songs only makes it easier to understand why Wilson the lonely young pop star was writing tunes as openly forlorn as “In My Room.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025
A big newspaper out east once held a contest to find the ugliest, most forlorn, most godforsaken town in the whole country, and it declared Battle Mountain the winner.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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