sad
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"I think I became quite sad a lot of the time."
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
A club statement, external added: "Our thoughts and love are with his family and friends at this incredibly sad time. Rest in peace, Danny."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
It is a brutally sad moment and also very telling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
"It's a really sad night," she added, paying tribute to her ousted cabinet colleague.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
For a moment, Hannie looked like the big sister who’d always been there for me, comforted me when I was sad, made me laugh by doing silly things.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
"We were able to find the body; some people couldn't. And that seems even sadder to me," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
And even sadder to see globalization tossed aside like last year’s toy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
But it became a much stranger, sadder story which almost a decade later is told onscreen in The Artist Who Disappeared.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
It’s also well cast, with the appealing Blyth always in control of the undercurrents, especially alongside the excellent Tovey, playing a sadder, wiser closetedness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025
Hazel saw herself growing up—her hair became longer, her eyes sadder.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
"She would make the angriest bloke smile, and the saddest lady laugh, that's just who she was... she was who everyone went to when they needed to be fixed."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Now, Kroenke will try to put his magic touch on one of the saddest franchises around: the Los Angeles Angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The best documented and maybe saddest story is that of a bear named “Monarch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Read: Opinion: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
At Minersville, I turned onto a back highway and headed through a landscape of overgrown mine tailings and rusting machinery towards Centralia, the strangest, saddest town I believe I have ever seen.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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