sad
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The struggles many people had with the smoke are a sad reminder of the importance air quality has for our health.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026
"We live practically like fireflies here -- in the dark all the time. You never know when you'll have power; it's our sad reality," Julian Gonzalez, a 72-year-old carpenter, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Yeah, that was actually kind of funny in a sad way,” Hellmann said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
"It's especially sad that this has happened in the summer when lots of extra projects are up and running," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Sadly, that wasn’t I,” said Duane, although secretly, he wasn’t that sad.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
The Financial Times's Danny Leigh dished out three stars, saying it paints a "portrait of tech rendering the young both sadder and meaner".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The old Nigerian-prince emails promised a fortune; the modern romance scam asks for something smaller and sadder: the money to fix a flat tire, the cost of a plane ticket forever about to be booked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
The world would be a sadder place without Queen's music, John Waters' films, and Andy Warhol's paintings.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2025
And because she is so very good, and alive, it is all the sadder to contemplate what we’ve lost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Clary’s dark brown eyes seemed to grow deeper and sadder.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
Also read: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Anton Du Beke, Widdecombe's dance partner on Strictly, said her death was the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Mr. Adams also proved to be the right composer to memorialize America’s saddest day: Sept. 11, 2001, when the nation was brought virtually to its knees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Today was the saddest day since I’ve been here because, as a foreigner in this land, I expected what I knew about the U.S.,” he said during a virtual press conference that morning.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
“The saddest part of Saipan,” Wilfred told me, “was those Japanese civilians.”
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
