brokenhearted

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An adolescent whose life is fractured after he survives an attack in a museum that took his mother, Theo is raised into Manhattan wealth but brokenhearted.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Ms. Huang tried to rally her brokenhearted friends.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023

But Colman explained in a recent interview that costume designer Verity Hawkes wanted to portray the brokenhearted woman as rotting from the inside by darkening her hem to look like there's mold growing through it.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

Sadie’s Sandy June’s debut was a plan to soothe brokenhearted people who’d just heard about National Picnic’s new rules.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith