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tearful

[teer-fuhl] / ˈtɪər fəl /


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Co-founder and CEO Jenny Goodman said she received an all-caps message with a smiling, tearful emoji from her director of operations after the ruling.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I was tearful all the time," she said.

From BBC

"It's kinda surreal still," Cunnah said, reflecting on the emotional, tearful moment he knocked on the door of his birth father's home in Barnsley, Yorkshire.

From BBC

Radio DJ Edith Bowman has made a tearful plea for a suitcase containing some of her grandfather's ashes to be returned.

From BBC

On Feb. 4, she posted a tearful video plea on her Instagram account, accompanied by her brother and sister.

From The Wall Street Journal