forlorn
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He performed a backflip for the crowd's entertainment, but it seemed like a forlorn call to the good times of only last week.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
Remember 2013, when West Brom striker Peter Odemwingie got in his car and drove 120 miles from Birmingham to London in the forlorn hope he would sign for Queens Park Rangers.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
“America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Nothing but dirt and dry, brown chaparral rolled beneath skis and snowboards dangling from a chairlift at Big Bear Mountain Resort on Friday, as forlorn adventure seekers joked they should rename the place “Big Bare.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
It snapped up the mouse, which uttered a forlorn squeak before being hurried off to the crevice in the rocks.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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