broken heart
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“I played with the twins since we were 14 years old,” Leslie wrote, along with a broken heart emoji, in the comments of the WNBA’s Instagram post announcing Horton’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Ramadan without the Al-Aqsa Mosque is a very sad feeling, a feeling of having a broken heart," said worshipper Zeyad Mona.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
She had a "broken heart that words can not describe", she added.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
I conclude not with a joke but with a proverb at the essence of most Jewish jokes: What is as whole as a Jew with a broken heart?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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