sad
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"News like this always leaves you feeling empty. It's very sad for all the families involved."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
“I feel at my most comfortable. I’m gonna be really sad when this one’s over.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
It was, sad to say, not an uncommon story during the last recession, when the unemployment rate rose to 10% and the number of foreclosure filings hit 2.8 million in 2009.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
It also bids a "sad farewell to D-Day hero Henry Rice at 100".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Worst of all, when Anastasia came in, Mom and Dad told her about it in very sad, quiet voices.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
"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
Nothing is sadder than to watch people stroll past that memorial as if nothing is out of the ordinary, our civic pride and historical perspective crushed under the weight of indifference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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
"Nothing can make me sadder, or diminish my value more than losing my dad, one of my best mates and the rock of our family."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
Eventually I fell sound asleep, hungry, wet, and sadder than I had ever felt before.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
Now, Kroenke will try to put his magic touch on one of the saddest franchises around: the Los Angeles Angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Also read: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Anton Du Beke, Widdecombe's dance partner on Strictly, said her death was the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Today was the saddest day since I’ve been here because, as a foreigner in this land, I expected what I knew about the U.S.,” he said during a virtual press conference that morning.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
At the wedding feast that followed her face was the saddest any of the Aesir had ever seen.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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