sad
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He called the deaths a “very sad thing.”
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Instead of immediately trying to regulate my nervous system, I let myself feel worried and sad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
"It's been a long life, and a very exciting life, and a very sad life, and a very happy life," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The duo told Rolling Stone on Tuesday that they were sad about the turn of events with Crockett but confirmed that their swanky Satan-loving doo-wop isn’t a sham.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"If he's smart, the people are happy; if he's stupid, they're sad."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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But it became a much stranger, sadder story which almost a decade later is told onscreen in The Artist Who Disappeared.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
He’s a symptom of something older, sadder and far less widespread than the headlines suggest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
And because she is so very good, and alive, it is all the sadder to contemplate what we’ve lost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
First, I’ve never been sadder to agree with you.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2024
He bites his lip and his Noise gets even sadder.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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Read: Opinion: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Anton Du Beke, Widdecombe's dance partner on Strictly, said her death was the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
“The saddest part of learning all that is that it made them seem even more like us than they had before.”
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
Isn’t that the saddest thing you’ve ever heard?
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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