tragic
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The tragic events, Vanetsky told AFP Friday morning outside the school, are "unthinkable."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of beloved actor, philanthropist, and passionate disability rights advocate RJ Mitte,” Mitte’s representatives said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The epistemic mismatch between her idea of what would transpire and the frat brothers’ is truly tragic.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
He has played gangsters, soldiers, policemen, politicians, patriots, villains, comic characters and tragic figures, while moving between Hindi and Marathi cinema and sometimes also working behind the camera as a director and writer.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Instead of dreaming their tragic forms, I recreated them as living, laughing people in the cool red confines of RiRi’s tent as she drifted off.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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