glad
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“Lyft believes drivers have always been properly classified under the law, and we’re glad to put this case behind us,” the company said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Schmitt: I’m glad you’re trying to rehabilitate the witness, but it’s not your time.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
One former Kremlin official even quipped to me, after I had told him I was working on this book, “You know, I’m just glad that Putin has made you financially better off, at least.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"I'm so glad I did it because she's such a great character and I just wanted her to be Welsh."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
It was much noisier than Clare was accustomed to, and for once, he felt glad of his single good ear.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Nobody is gladder for Rosen, Donoghue, and Engel than constitutional democracy is today.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2022
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 would be gladder if it were the Hound, Sansa thought.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
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
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
"Calvary and Easter Day, Earth's saddest day and gladdest day, Were but one day apart."
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
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
Hence I took a thought This was a judgement on me; that my kingdom, Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not Be gladded in't by me.
From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and somedeal be occupied.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele
The guests be gladded with lutes and harps.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele
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 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
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
God safely quit her of her Burthen, and With gentle Trauaile, to the gladding of Your Highnesse with an Heire King.
From Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?
From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
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
