suicidal

as in depressed

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Adjective
  • That view shifted Wednesday, with our double upgrade back to our buy-equivalent 1 rating after CEO David Ricks and several other company insiders bought lots of shares of the depressed stock.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Though heartbreaking, the film is rooted in laughter, with Jamie living his life not in a depressed state but rather choosing to live in the moment.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
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  • Beginning life as a lighter, more kid-friendly spinoff before transforming into something more melancholic and thoughtful than its parent series, Boruto is also broken into two distinct halves.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Still, scattershot laughs aside, Happy Gilmore 2’s efforts at silliness are overwhelmed by a sensibility that’s downright melancholic and overshadowed by death, and not just the impending one of the film industry.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 July 2025
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  • As with almost any change, some residents were unhappy, mostly about being told to slow down.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • President Donald Trump was unhappy with July’s U.S. jobs report, which showed hiring slowing (with 73,000 jobs added, compared to 100,000 predicted) and revised past months’ numbers.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Charlotte Lawrence loves a good, gut-wrenching, sad song.
    Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Unfortunately, between the time of the taping and the show release, sad news came to Mike Kimmel’s team.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The modern poster girl for the trend is Wednesday Addams, the Addams Family’s morbid and emotionally reserved daughter, who is the focus of Tim Burton’s Netflix series starring Ortega in the role.
    Ella Alexander, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And no, the whole thing isn't just an exercise in morbid curiosity.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025
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  • But the overriding feeling of the work is melancholy.
    Hugh Morris, New York Times, 25 July 2025
  • Anna, an American student at Harvard, falls deeply and unaccountably in love with Christoph, who is on exchange from Germany, in this melancholy début novel.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • Other red flags include: Poor feeding Lethargy Intense or persistent crying that is inconsolable Vomiting or changes in bowel movements Dr. Fischman also urges parents to listen to their gut feelings that something is wrong, especially if your usual tricks aren’t working to calm your baby.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 July 2025
  • Despite Yvette's attempts to reassure her, the bride was inconsolable.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The actor channels Nanning’s initial naïveté through sorrowful eyes that grow more steely as his adventures harden him to harsh realities.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
  • Her countenance is icy and distant and her fight skills as formidable as her speed, but the persistent attentions of Johnny Storm eventually expose a softer side of her and a sorrowful history in the climactic stretch.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
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“Suicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicidal. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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