sad
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"It's really, really hard, and it's really sad to watch," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Vitamin C was filed away with other “alternative” remedies, and Pauling’s late-career crusade was widely seen as a sad mistake.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The presenter also said she wanted to express "how sad I am that it's got to this - believe me, I have appealed to ITV's hearts and minds, but to no avail".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“This has been a very sad situation for the people there,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He didn’t have a word for it, but he knew that Sinchi, as angry as he appeared, was mostly sad.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Just 50 miles from the thriving Somerset grapevines, Phil Collins shows me a much sadder sight.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
He’s a symptom of something older, sadder and far less widespread than the headlines suggest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Freeze your leftover brewed coffee into cubes, then drop them into your next glass for a cold brew that gets stronger, not sadder.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
And because she is so very good, and alive, it is all the sadder to contemplate what we’ve lost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
But somehow that had made her look sadder.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
Anton Du Beke, who was her partner on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, said he was devastated , which he called the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Also read: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Patel swiftly developed a talent for online provocation that would generate lots of clicks and comments, albeit from some of the saddest or weirdest people in the country.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Taix was where I watched the heroic Zinedine Zidane headbutt the gutless Marco Materazzi in the saddest World Cup final ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
It was the saddest sound Edward had ever heard.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
