as in bitterly
with feelings of bitterness or grief
18th-century gravestones typically have inscriptions in which the brevity of life and the certainty of death are lugubriously noted
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Today, its surface is bitterly cold, with most of its underground water frozen into a thick shell of ice, with some remaining as a salty brine trapped below.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
26 Aug. 2025 -
The party fought bitterly against the reformers targeting this assault on democracy.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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The fates of so many were decided on the 1969 day when a dashing and sadly underestimated 25-year-old Colonel Qaddafi seized power from the monarchy in a matter of hours and promised a new golden era, inspired by Egypt’s President Nasser.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
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Several months after sadly losing her childhood cat in 2023, Hannah Powell felt ready to open her heart to a rescue cat in need of a home.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Noah Baumbach’s painfully incisive portrait of a family divorce among a remarkably prickly family of Brooklyn intellectuals finds so many ways to showcase its characters’ most brittle sides.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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There was a recognition Amorim’s predecessors had assembled a painfully lopsided squad, while the club had lacked a football structure since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in May 2013.—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Lugubriously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lugubriously. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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