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What Justice Elena Kagan wrote of so despairingly in those cases resonates anew in Florida.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026 -
O’Farrell’s words skip lightly on some pages, then pace with anxiety, then finally trudge along despairingly.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
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He was joined by Konstantinos Mavropanos and Jarrod Bowen, who clapped dejectedly.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Now, the 36-year-old grower, who inherited the generational plot from his father, can only wave his arm dejectedly at row after row of weak, spindly stems, the result of catastrophic floods that swept the South Asian nation’s agricultural heartland to a degree not experienced in three decades.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Oct. 2025
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But sadly, this effort is being affected in a negative manner by neighboring counties.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 June 2026
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The prestige of the truly élite colleges will, sadly, not change all that much.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
9 June 2026
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The effect of Gaza on these particular swing voters lingers painfully in the thoughts of Harris’s most ardent supporters.—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
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Tuesday night’s theme was painfully redundant for the Giants (27-41).—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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Now Daphne, unhappily affianced, has run off with one Hop Wingdale, a clarinet player for a band called the Klezmopolitans, and her mother and her would-be future husband have engaged Unamalgamated Ops to bring her home.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Amir stars as unhappily married Angine who is infatuated with salesgirl Malaise (Bajrami), threatening to put them both of them in danger of terrible reprisals.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
1 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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For starters, Kentucky is a powerhouse program in a different sport (basketball) much in the same way that the United States dominates other sports while being woefully behind the other world powers in soccer.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
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In the next 111 seconds of game time, the Cavaliers outscored the Raptors 10-0, with Nogueira looking woefully out of place.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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That leaves the volatile Joanne feeling shut out and bitterly resentful.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
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The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, desperate to connect with the grandeur of antiquity and left bitterly disappointed by his visit to Rome, eventually arrived in this once-vibrant center of the extended Greek empire.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Semi-autobiographical in one sense and despondently poetic in the other, The Stranger launched Camus’ career as a major 20th century author.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Downheartedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downheartedly. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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