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as in mourned
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
we all grieved over the lost cat
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Recent Examples of grieved
Kimberly King, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2026
The five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance – are tools to help name what a grieved person may be feeling.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
When violence shattered a life dedicated to public argument and persuasion, our divided nation was shocked, angry, confused, grieved, and afraid.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Amanda Hari, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
The Duluth Police Union successfully grieved the decision, returning Leibried to his job.
—Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2026
Processing an old resentment today could bring it up fully and out into the open where it can be seen, understood, learned from, grieved and forgiven.
—Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 3 Jan. 2026
In her own life, Miles has grieved the losses of two of her children for years.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
On Wednesday, the actress grieved Kinsella’s death with a heartfelt statement, more than 15 years after starring as shopping addict Rebecca Bloomwood in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), which was based on the series of novels that ultimately spanned from 2000 to 2019.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2025
Users of both Replika and GPT-4o, an older model offered within ChatGPT, have grieved when technical changes caused their bots to lose memories or otherwise shift their behavior.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
The sentiment was echoed across social media, as many grieved the loss of a long-operating part of American amusement park history.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
Those who have lost and those who have grieved understand what this weight feels like.
—Daniel Popper, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
Processing an old resentment today could bring it up fully and out into the open where it can be seen, understood, learned from, grieved, and forgiven.
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Fans left notes, flowers, and grieved together.
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Adjective
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After Anna disappeared, Alice was heartbroken.—
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A day after the shooting, Chez’s heartbroken parents proclaimed at a press conference outside the 101st Precinct stationhouse in Far Rockaway that their son posed no threat.—
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Book blogs mourned my loss, a distinction that was both affirming and heartrending.—
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Hollywood Heritage, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving neighborhood history, mourned the loss of the motel in a statement Sunday.—
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Immediately, a dispirited city administration came to life, with particular focus on quality-of-life issues affecting residents and visitors.—
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People should be more excited and less dispirited about artificial intelligence, according to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.—
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His groin ached as if Sister Wang had been clutching him for years.—
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Smigiel’s right shoulder and elbow ached?—
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Brolin plays a particularly heartsick parent coming for Garner and demanding answers about his missing daughter.—
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As the titular Buffy, Gellar ably led her gang of monster-slayers (and heartsick teenagers) through seven seasons.—
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Naroditsky sighed, looking skeptical.—
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Immediately after the verdict was read, Banegas’ family members sighed in relief.—
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As the two catch up, Crudup veers from good-natured to sorrowful to bitter to menacing in a matter of minutes.—
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Even at its most sorrowful, anti-authoritarian, and smart-alecky, Gunn’s work endorses a fundamentally promising vision of life.—
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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.—
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The state’s woebegone bullet train project has been receiving a quarter of auction revenues, roughly $1 billion a year.—
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“Grieved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grieved. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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