gratified

Example Sentences

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"I don't know whether to feel gratified by the vindication or annoyed by the amount of time I wasted in pointing out that the numbers were clearly wrong," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

Woolley and Hood surely would be gratified by the Preservation Commission’s finding:

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

“The same group of people, the same kind of night, 30 years later. I feel incredibly gratified by that.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

As the husky voice scraped inexorably on, she ventured to raise her head a little, and was gratified to see that Judith too was peeking.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare