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Desperation, in comedy, is pathetic but not tragic; indeed, it’s a pillar of the form.

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Publicly, the Department of Homeland Security has described those incidents as “tragic” while assigning blame to everything but itself.

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Cruise lines take these procedures very seriously and have "clever tech in place to prevent such incidents from happening. This is most likely a shocking - and tragic - one-off," Ms Mallinson added.

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The Ferntree Gully Cricket Club said it was "absolutely devastated" by the "tragic passing" of one its players and the teenager's death "will be felt by all in our cricket community".

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Running out of money in your 70s would be tragic, but so would being so restrictive that you don’t enjoy your youth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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