sad
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The mental health charity Riders Minds responded to the "desperately sad news" by offering "immediate support" to members of the eventing community.
From BBC ● 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
Its 2020 debut album, “PDE,” experimented more with the prickly, sad sierreño sound popularized by acts like Eslabon Armado and DannyLux — as well as trap-infused corridos tumbados with a thumping tololoche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
Sometime between Christmas and the New Year, the doctor came to call, and he still had that sad look.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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
The old Nigerian-prince emails promised a fortune; the modern romance scam asks for something smaller and sadder: the money to fix a flat tire, the cost of a plane ticket forever about to be booked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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
A testament to lives cut short, “Rust” is beautifully filmed and all the sadder for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Briaress expression morphed to something even sadder: his grieving face.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
Opinion: 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
Mr. Adams also proved to be the right composer to memorialize America’s saddest day: Sept. 11, 2001, when the nation was brought virtually to its knees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
One night he looked up at the sky and said in the saddest voice Marly had ever heard from him, “When the moon comes full again, there’ll be a killing frost.”
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
