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sad

[sad] / sæd /




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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

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

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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