tearful
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Across an itinerant urgency of walks, drives, embraces, laughs, threats, nervy meetings, shared meals, phone calls and tearful testimony, Loktev’s immersive portrait of roving defiance is as necessary as nonfiction gets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Swimmer Archie Goodburn is to meet the prime minister later after making a tearful plea for more investment to be put into brain cancer research.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Traditional music and tearful relatives welcomed the 45-year-old when he returned home on Friday after spending weeks recovering at a hospital in Kathmandu.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Entrepreneurs posted tearful videos on social media to plead for help after their inventory was torched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Then Sazonov escorted the tearful German ambassador to the door.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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