sad
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Twenty-five Septembers after 9/11, I don’t feel sad about getting older.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“It has been subject to increasingly aggressive change. When I was younger, it was sad for me to witness. I was consoled because Vlore was not the center, but then they started attacking here too.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Hundreds of residents have paid tribute on social media, with one saying: "Heartbreaking news, our thoughts and prayers are with family and friends at this very sad time."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
So is this a hopeful story or a sad one?
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
You could also tell she was sad about her pimples and mad that she had them.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Or people could generally be sadder than they were before the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Navarrete kept calm even as the stories she heard grew sadder and sadder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"We were able to find the body; some people couldn't. And that seems even sadder to me," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Financial Times's Danny Leigh dished out three stars, saying it paints a "portrait of tech rendering the young both sadder and meaner".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Even sadder this time. as a child, i smelled the air Mama takes her coffee out to the front porch sips it slow.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
The best documented and maybe saddest story is that of a bear named “Monarch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Anton Du Beke, who was her partner on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, said he was devastated , which he called the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Also read: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Part-sculpted work and marble block, each has a tragic aspect to it, recalling John Greenleaf Whittier’s forlorn observation: “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
But at school one of his teachers had said, “Christmas is the time to think about people who are lonely. For somebody living all alone, Christmas can be the saddest time of the year.”
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
