sentimental
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"There's emotional value in it, sentimental value, and I still look at games that I bought 20 years ago."
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The shallow can never quite be tender, only sentimental.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
There are emotional costs to these sales as well, because unlike other forms of wealth, people have sentimental attachments to their homes and may view downsizing or renting as a personal defeat.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
"The instruments had massive sentimental value to me. They were both gifted to me by my dad who passed away this week last year," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
He certainly did add ‘spirit’ to the meetings, and ‘a tone’ to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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