somber
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Appeared in the December 18, 2025, print edition as 'A Somber New Home'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Somber and remorseful, his Beckett in formal attire explains that he has accepted the award so that he can give the money away.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
Somber because the last of the Greatest Generation will soon no longer be with us.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
Somber throughout the two-hour ceremony, he looked like a man feeling the weight of the crown — in his case, an imperial one set with 2,868 diamonds, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 269 pearls.
From New York Times • May 6, 2023
Somber peaks, hacked and shattered, circled half-way around the horizon, wearing a savage aspect in the gloaming, and a waterfall chanted solemnly across the lake on its way down from the foot of a glacier.
From The Mountains of California by Muir, John
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