heartbreak

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Recent Examples of heartbreak Next came crushing rejections and heartbreak. Sofía Pereda, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025 Detroit's season officially ended in heartbreak with a touch of what could have been because this series probably should have been played in Michigan. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025 The heartbreak felt by the Phillies and their fans was written on Kerkering’s face, too. Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 Not for Radio represents a creative reset born from heartbreak… and a bit of an identity crisis. Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heartbreak
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Noun
  • Running underneath all of our efforts was heartache, sorrow, and anxiety over her loss.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In early Christian thinking, its connotations of languor and listlessness, within the spirit no less than the body, lent it the status of a sin—a turning aside from God for the sake of earthly sorrow.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the central Tennessee community that is home to the plant is grappling with a wave of grief as 16 families try to make sense of the tragedy.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Zhao is in London promoting her newest film Hamnet, starring Irish talent Mescal as William Shakespeare and Buckley as his wife, Agnes, who are thrown into contrasting experiences of grief following the death of their young son, Hamnet.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That pivot is in Alex’s sudden move toward becoming an amateur stand-up comic, using the stage and the microphone as therapy platforms for his anguish.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Nothing has surfaced to document her anguish.
    Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Heartbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartbreak. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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