sad
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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
Another said: "I cannot express how sad I am to hear this news. A lovely couple who will be greatly missed."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Because since then, I’ve found myself thinking about all the other frozen things that can elicit the same feeling: not resignation, not emergency, not the sad little archaeology of dinners past, but anticipation.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Webb commented on Loder’s video soon thereafter: “You know what’s sad is they allow people like you in the locker room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
When she finished, she felt happy and sad at the same time, because the ending was warm and smiley but she didn’t want to say good-bye to the people in the book.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
And even sadder to see globalization tossed aside like last year’s toy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
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
Freeze your leftover brewed coffee into cubes, then drop them into your next glass for a cold brew that gets stronger, not sadder.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 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
They looked much like our soldiers, only dirtier, sadder.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Anton Du Beke, who was her partner on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, said he was devastated by her death, which he called the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Anton Du Beke, Widdecombe's dance partner on Strictly, said her death was the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
In a story about a potential tragedy, what’s saddest is that Winocour’s film cannot match its lead’s effortless command.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Washington Nationals have been one of baseball’s saddest franchises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
At Minersville, I turned onto a back highway and headed through a landscape of overgrown mine tailings and rusting machinery towards Centralia, the strangest, saddest town I believe I have ever seen.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
