glad
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It’s going to take a few weeks to get a resolution, and there’s no guarantee that anything will change, but I’m glad I went hunting for answers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
“I’m genuinely glad to see organizations at the national level addressing this gap,” said Samara Tricarico, co-founder of the non-profit Endurant Movement, which works with neurodivergent youth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Their mum died recently, but both say they are glad she got to be reunited with her son.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
As I was in the process of leaving it all behind, I was going, “OK, yeah, whoo, glad I made it out of there!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Instead she said, “I’m glad you came back from Chip’s. Was Katherine with you? I didn’t see her. ”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
And I’m gladder still that by the end of your letter you realized what question you were really asking.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2021
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 could not be gladder of carrying it.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
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
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
For this very sane and healthy personage, Archie Morris, might almost be described as an aqua-maniac, so intense was his passion for that gladdest and most glorious creature of God.
From Across the Stream by Benson, Edward Frederic
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
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 Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
The guests be gladded with lutes and harps.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
But I find not the angel in any wise gladded with the same.
From Mistress Margery by Holt, Emily Sarah
And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and somedeal be occupied.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
But where the devil were you gladding last night, my young master?
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
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 Bierce, Ambrose
Oh, noble is the knotted oak, And sweet the gush of sylvan streams, And good the great sun's gladding beams, The blush of life upon the field, The silent might that mountains wield.
From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Shakespeare, William
