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[glad] / glæd /


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Finally, a job most anyone would be glad to see lost to AI: flossing.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

I’m incredibly glad I decided to educate myself financially, and even happier that I decided to go back to school.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

Most employers in that area were glad to have Haitian workers, even if they didn’t talk about it in the press.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2026

"It came with a lot of sacrifice, it came with a lot of hard work. I'm glad that I'm able to present that as an option for British talent going forward."

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

I sat at the hearth that night, glad that Da had left us with enough turf to burn until he came back.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

And I’m gladder still that by the end of your letter you realized what question you were really asking.

From Slate Jan. 24, 2021

I was even gladder to see his look of awe, his happy suspension of disbelief in the face of such adult wizardry.

From The New Yorker Oct. 29, 2019

No holdouts, which makes Carroll’s heart even gladder.

From Seattle Times Jul. 30, 2016

I am glad to have finally seen it, but gladder still that my bed is not a bus ride away.

From The Guardian Jul. 25, 2010

I could be gladder to see him this time, since for the moment at least I was not worried about the man.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

For many an entrepreneurial Pop the gladdest moment of a lifetime is when his No.1 son enters the family firm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Famed in Los Angeles as the gladdest glad-hander of them all, Norris Poulson made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Yorty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Across the land this Christmas season, churches old and new, grand or unpretentious, prepare for the gladdest occasion of the Christian calendar.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had run over to me and was standing down below with the gladdest face.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

But I'm gladdest of all that you and Ambo are beginning at last to be friends.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

The doctor waved his hand to the Royal Orchestra, who immediately struck up with Jesu Christes Milde Moder—since Dr. Bartholomew’s book had recommended that madmen should be gladded with instruments.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Let me think of building castles in Spain, my imagination will forge me commodities and afford means 164and delights wherewith my mind is really tickled and essentially gladded.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and somedeal be occupied.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and some deal be occupied.'

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh

But I find not the angel in any wise gladded with the same.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

God safely quit her of her burden, and With gentle travail, to the gladding of Your Highness with an heir!

From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

Oh, noble is the knotted oak, And sweet the gush of sylvan streams, And good the great sun's gladding beams, The blush of life upon the field, The silent might that mountains wield.

From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop

And God give you to know Christ, and send us a happy meeting in that His blessed habitation, unto the great gladding of your most loving and dutiful daughter, Margery Marnell.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?

From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

One day she saw below her in the forest a dear gazelle, gladding her with its soft black eye.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce




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