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Adjective
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In recent months, farmers have cited depressed commodity prices, high input costs and a weak export market as pressing economic stressors going into the harvest season.—
Cristina LaRue,
Arkansas Online,
24 Sep. 2025 -
At first, Walters feared the chicken might not survive—describing her as lethargic and depressed.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The project alternates between details of everyday life—imbued with a surreal, universal quality—and delicate, melancholic landscapes alongside portraits of figures suspended in time, inhabiting their own oneiric world.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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Darkly funny and deeply melancholic, the film turns the family estate into a pressure cooker of grief, grudges and reluctant affection.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Roseanne Barr is unhappy that Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Sep. 2025
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There is a form of right-of-center liberalism that is content with status hierarchies, that is very unhappy with anything that makes people feel reprimanded.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Is this a deeply sad, award-winning tearjerker of a drama?—
James Factora,
Them.,
26 Sep. 2025
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The schism that developed between Ric and Ben is a very sad part of the story.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Based on the 2010 manga of the same name, the series is loaded with big questions, morbid challenges and a deep look at people in crisis.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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The writer’s illness — tuberculosis of the larynx — is seen as a particularly cruel horror, albeit one in lockstep with his morbid imagination, which continued to work overtime.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For Esquinas, the goal is to balance melancholy with hope.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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Although the play has its melancholy moments, Shakina doesn’t dwell on them.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The mother thanked officers and ran from the apartment, distraught and inconsolable.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
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If parents in Minneapolis are inconsolable tonight, if parents across the country are afraid that their children’s school might be the next one—and there will be a next one, and a next one after that—that means our nation is working according to our current leaders’ wishes.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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The judges would look embarrassed and sorrowful.—
Laura Vazquez,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Anderson’s depiction of this process — a clever and orderly network of seemingly anonymous people performing clandestine miracles — is one of the most stirring aspects of the film, inspiring in its testament to mutual aid while sorrowful that such things have to exist at all.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Suicidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicidal. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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