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Adjective
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Two screenshots from the video showing Ollie was a sad facial expression.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025 -
The building directly across the street stands in sad disrepair, its windows smashed, swathed in graffiti, a front garage door hangs half-open.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Sunday, the Sox, who are now an impossibly bad 31-100, locked up the sixth triple-digit-loss season in their woebegone history with a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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But on Tuesday, the Royals found a way to pick up their crestfallen teammate in a 10-7 victory.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2025
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The Catalans went into the latest addition of the world’s biggest derby crestfallen after Tuesday’s painful Champions League semifinal second leg exit to Inter Milan.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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In the formerly forlorn Flon warehouse district, Street Cellar is a fun casual eatery and wine bar among a whole slew of such venues that fill up with young people in the evening.—
John Oseid,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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And some Democrats, frustrated and forlorn at a lack of leadership in their own ranks, have embraced him as a hero.—
Gina Kolata,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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So those are the tracks that determinedly break from the overriding tone that runs through the other songs, which is rather more glum, or at least searching and reflective about why too much time got wasted in a long, nowhere love affair.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
20 June 2025
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Returning to work and dealing with strict COVID-19 protocols, inflation and supply-chain issues, crews could be glum.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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The Market’s Still Close To Record Highs Despite the gloomy headlines, here’s some good news: the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are only about 2-3% below their all-time highs.—
Adam Sarhan,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Video by McCarty shows the towering vortex, with the rainbow adding a colorful accent to an otherwise gray, gloomy skyline.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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As Wilshere and his players greeted the Norwich fans, across the Riverside pitch, Michael Carrick and his Middlesbrough squad were conducting a disconsolate lap of appreciation in a largely emptied stadium.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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After noticing disconsolate tourists wandering the perimeter, Taskinen proposed installing a café on the ground floor and restoring the building’s four spacious apartments into modest but comfortable rooms filled with Artek furniture.—
Michael Snyder,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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On crutches, all Haliburton could do after the game was greet his despondent teammates in a Paycomm Center hallway.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
23 June 2025
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Just the kind of leadership despondent Democrats need.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2025
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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