sad
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"It's so incredibly sad to hear that South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams has passed away just weeks after featuring in his nation's historic Fifa World Cup campaign," Fifa president Gianni Infantino said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Because since then, I’ve found myself thinking about all the other frozen things that can elicit the same feeling: not resignation, not emergency, not the sad little archaeology of dinners past, but anticipation.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
"I am very sad at all the reports that I am hearing. I am really confused by it all."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Webb commented on Loder’s video soon thereafter: “You know what’s sad is they allow people like you in the locker room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
When she finished, she felt happy and sad at the same time, because the ending was warm and smiley but she didn’t want to say good-bye to the people in the book.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
And even sadder to see globalization tossed aside like last year’s toy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
But it became a much stranger, sadder story which almost a decade later is told onscreen in The Artist Who Disappeared.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
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
First, I’ve never been sadder to agree with you.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2024
“Wild, ain’t it?” she says, seeming suddenly sadder.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
Anton Du Beke, who was her partner on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, said he was devastated by her death, which he called the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
In a story about a potential tragedy, what’s saddest is that Winocour’s film cannot match its lead’s effortless command.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
It was the saddest smile I'd ever seen in my life.
From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson
