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The team's most recent loss was a real heartbreaker.
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Canada also won the last Olympic tournament to feature best-on-best hockey, in 2014 in Sochi, and—thanks to that McDavid heartbreaker—are the defending 4 Nations Face-Off champs.
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Sean Gregory, Time, 21 Feb. 2026
Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean heartbreaker Hamnet and Josh Safdie’s ping-pong caper Marty Supreme earned 11 BAFTA nods each, while Joachim Trier’s drama Sentimental Value and Guillermo del Toro’s gothic epic Frankenstein earned eight BAFTA noms.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
Directed by Oran Zegman (Honor Society), Goodbye Girl follows Jess (Shipka), who’s a professional heartbreaker.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
The Bobcats then lost a heartbreaker to Boston College to end their hopes of repeating as champs.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
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Sean Gregory, Time, 21 Feb. 2026
Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean heartbreaker Hamnet and Josh Safdie’s ping-pong caper Marty Supreme earned 11 BAFTA nods each, while Joachim Trier’s drama Sentimental Value and Guillermo del Toro’s gothic epic Frankenstein earned eight BAFTA noms.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
Directed by Oran Zegman (Honor Society), Goodbye Girl follows Jess (Shipka), who’s a professional heartbreaker.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
The Bobcats then lost a heartbreaker to Boston College to end their hopes of repeating as champs.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
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“Heartbreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heartbreaker. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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