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as in sad
feeling unhappiness
not as heartbroken over missing out on the trip to New York as I thought she would be
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as in weeping
expressing or suggesting mourning
was utterly heartbroken when his pet dog died
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Recent Examples of heartbroken
Boitel had worked at the luxury condo building, greeting residents coming into the lobby, for more than three decades, his heartbroken son Marvin Boitel told The News.
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Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
Neighbors said they were heartbroken to hear about the incident.
—Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
The aunt dies, and heartbroken Lord Marlowe decamps for America.
—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
Sanchez turned 18 last month and his family is heartbroken to lose him, Anay Sanchez wrote in a GoFundMe post organized for funeral expenses.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2026
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Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
Neighbors said they were heartbroken to hear about the incident.
—Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
The aunt dies, and heartbroken Lord Marlowe decamps for America.
—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
Sanchez turned 18 last month and his family is heartbroken to lose him, Anay Sanchez wrote in a GoFundMe post organized for funeral expenses.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartbroken
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Meanwhile, Nancy Guthrie's Arizona community gathered for a vigil Wednesday evening while the world can't look away from an incident that is deeply, horrifically sad and frightening.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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The song is sophisticated and simple, sad and somehow triumphant.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
David Mamet,
National Review,
11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
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For Adams’ Laura, its restorative properties are compromised by ever-present memories of her unhappy childhood, many of them directly associated with the family’s gorgeous summer house.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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Competitive equity playoffs There’s still coaches unhappy with the Southern Section competitive equity playoff system using computer algorithms to place teams in divisions.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
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Such memories flowed freely this week on social media and in mournful first-person essays.—
Dan Adler,
Vanity Fair,
6 Feb. 2026
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Newsom shakes his head, seeming more mournful than angry.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
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And very plain and simple, just depressed.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Feb. 2026
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Nora Ephron for depressed perverts.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2026
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Varanasi was quite an experience, seeing the funeral pyres.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
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At a recent post-funeral luncheon, my friends and I marveled at the spread.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
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This season has turned out to be worse than anyone could possibly have imagined, with another injury crisis and truly miserable performances and results under Frank.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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For this Welsh immigrant family rose from nothing to produce an American icon who mastered a distinctly American art form — the ultimate apotheosis of the American Dream — and who is, ironically, the most miserable of them all.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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Cathy’s, um, secretions Fennell’s tendency to shock us only lightly comes (sorry) into full effect when Cathy steals off to the moors to masturbate against a giant rock, overwhelmed by her feelings for Heathcliff.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Liverpool’s sorry state Liverpool were sitting pretty for a short time at Anfield, driven in front by another epic strike from Szoboszlai (above).—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Heartbroken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartbroken. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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