gladden
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It expects him to be a grander figure, a talisman who will gladden the jaded and enthuse audiences the orchestra has yet to enthuse.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
It will gladden your hearts to know that the man in front of her was also stopped and ticketed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Sentiments to gladden the hearts of Ukrainian diplomats and days after President Zelenksy's appeal, dozens of hopeful volunteers headed to the Ukrainian embassy in Abuja, with ambitions of enlisting.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2022
Rather than being a distressing duty, exclusion seems to gladden his dreary day.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2020
The second task would lay perfume on the air and gladden noses near and far.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
Pitt especially gladdens as the former inmate with the face tattoos and creative side gig.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Sometimes there's a subversive element to Twitter, a sense of underground community; an anti-establishment frisson that gladdens the soul.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013
The one thing that gladdens my heart is that he’s going bald.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2011
There is little that gladdens a geek's heart more than the sound of that first successful post beep from a self-built computer.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2011
She comes out with a few friends, which gladdens me because I hoped she wouldn’t be alone.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
It was his getting up on Shabbat mornings to join us at synagogue that most gladdened and baffled me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Rather than viewing their opponents as enemies, many athletes seem to be emboldened and gladdened by their competitors’ successes.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
“I’m gladdened we can all sing together again and we can see our faces when we sing.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
I believe I gave a convincing impression of a person gladdened by another’s good fortune.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2019
Anyway, this time she had her chin stuck out over the sink in case she dripped as she ribbed, and when he’d tickled her Adam’s apple, she’d laughed, which gladdened him.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
He imagined the hiss and pop of their burning logs gladdening “many a humble fireside.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
The animated series pitches Aang’s refusal to entirely abandon his innocence as a gladdening luxury in a world ravaged by war.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024
Lenton and Wilson, with a combined age of 130, were perhaps the most gladdening of the successes.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2022
The brilliant and gladdening “Six: The Musical” thumbs its fetching nose at Tudor England’s old boys network and reserves a few blissfully scornful finger-wags for our own.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022
But Turner had no intention of gladdening the hearts of this grieving congregation.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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