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Adjective
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And when the detective handed his business card over and explained the situation, the guy was very distraught and very sad.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
15 Jan. 2026 -
Thoughts about sad events stopped causing days-long spirals, and tasks that once felt insurmountable were no longer a second thought.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The Chargers would clinch the sixth-seeded spot with a victory over the Broncos or a loss by the Buffalo Bills to the woebegone New York Jets or a tie with the Broncos and a tie by the Bills or a tie with the Broncos and a loss by the Texans.—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
29 Dec. 2025
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The state’s woebegone bullet train project has been receiving a quarter of auction revenues, roughly $1 billion a year.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
12 Dec. 2025
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The decision has left students crestfallen.—
Olivia Palombo,
FOXNews.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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Those are encouraging strides on a team that was understandably crestfallen Sunday, when Warner dislocated and fractured his right ankle, which was surgically repaired Tuesday at Stanford Hospital.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Car lots, mechanic shops, and cafes line a forlorn stretch of Route 66 in central Amarillo, but vibrant art galleries, antique shops, restaurants, a bookstore, and record shop are concentrated in a lively 13-block strip of the famed highway west of the central business district.—
Pam LeBlanc,
Southern Living,
3 Jan. 2026
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Highways, viaducts, giant interchanges, and a major Metro junction viciously mutilated São Paulo’s downtown in the 1960s and ’70s, demoting it from a popular residential area to a commercial transfer hub, overcrowded and polluted by day but forlorn by night.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The president himself has, in recent weeks, appeared glum about his chances of winning the appeal and maintaining the IEEPA tariffs.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Jan. 2026
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As for his team losing out on a playoff berth the night before Charles' appearance on Fallon, though, the Ravens fan was glum.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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China's economy ended the year on a slightly less gloomy note, as factory activity expanded in December for the first time since March, beating expectations, according to official data released Wednesday.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
31 Dec. 2025
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Chilly, gloomy New Year's Eve across Baltimore Temperatures are peaking in the low to mid-30s this afternoon, under lots of clouds.—
Cutter Martin,
CBS News,
31 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Amby is disconsolate on the drive home.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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At least two people lost their life savings and, despondent, then took their own lives.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
10 Jan. 2026
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Instead of getting despondent about it, it was used as a motivation.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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