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The team's most recent loss was a real heartbreaker.
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Birdville is aiming to return to the Alamodome; in 2025, the Hawks reached the state title game and fell to West Brook 63-57 in an overtime heartbreaker.
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2026
Goodbye Girl reps director Oran Zegman‘s follow-up to Honor Society, the Paramount+ coming-of-age comedy starring Angourie Rice and Gaten Matarazzo Goodbye Girl follows Jess (Shipka), who’s a professional heartbreaker.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2026
Goodbye Girl reps director Oran Zegman‘s follow-up to Honor Society, the Paramount+ coming-of-age comedy starring Angourie Rice and Gaten Matarazzo Goodbye Girl follows Jess (Shipka), who’s a professional heartbreaker.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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“Heartbreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heartbreaker. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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