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Recent Examples of dejection The look of dejection was difficult to ignore. Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025 This set off a wild celebration by the Canadians — and obvious dejection among the American fans and players. Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025 Oswald and a now-pregnant Ingrid handle Edward’s care, with his anger and dejection only growing. Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025 All that positivity evaporated in the opening seconds on Saturday, with that hope being replaced by anger, recrimination and dejection. Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dejection
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Noun
  • Forecasters said in an Aug. 18 advisory that environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form during the latter part of this week.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The hurricane center has already identified a tropical wave behind Erin that has a medium chance of developing into a tropical depression or tropical storm within the next seven days.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Lacy’s new music maintains his sly sense of humor, but with a barefaced melancholy that pushes it to new emotional depths.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • More often than not, the film’s nostalgia is sweet and enjoyable because it is paired with the melancholy that comes from all the acknowledgments of the actors from the original who died over the last 29 years.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • On the OpenAI community forums and Reddit, long-time chatters are expressing sorrow at losing access to models like GPT-4o.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
  • As images of starving children in Gaza continue to circulate and the international outcry grows louder, a number of American rabbis used their pulpits to speak up about the humanitarian crisis, some with sorrow, others with moral urgency, and many with a sense that silence was no longer tenable.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Dejection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dejection. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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