bereft
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When 16-year-old Felix Platter set out from his home in Basel, Switzerland, to attend medical school in Montpellier, France, his mother was bereft.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
"England just look like a team bereft of confidence at the minute," he told Rugby Union Weekly.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Markets elsewhere, bereft of megacap tech buoyancy, failed to keep pace.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Ask any MTV fans still bereft over its exaggerated demise how the latest season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” can still be airing on, yes, MTV.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026
Once you were in the woods and bereft of bearings, you could easily miss it by a mile.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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