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as in sad
feeling unhappiness
not as heartbroken over missing out on the trip to New York as I thought she would be
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as in weeping
expressing or suggesting mourning
was utterly heartbroken when his pet dog died
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Recent Examples of heartbroken
After everyone left, her husband apologized for his mother’s absence and thanked her for her hard work, but the experience left her heartbroken.
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 8 May 2025
Even Elsa Wentz, though heartbroken, could not deny it.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 3 May 2025
The recent tragic helicopter crash into the Hudson River, which claimed six lives, has left our city heartbroken and once again grappling with difficult questions about public safety and aviation policy.
—Keith Powers, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
The heartbroken couple spent days looking for Valerie but eventually had to return to their lives in Broken Hill, New South Wales.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
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For someone who prizes roadside Americana, this is the visual version of the sad trombone sound.—
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After the show, there's booze, girls, and hotel suites, but Abel's locked in the bathroom, being sad.—
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
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However, the Palestinians are unhappy with the speed of FIFA’s inquiries.—
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Their presidential candidate, Erika Meza, a 25-year veteran teacher from the Southeast Side, is unhappy with what CTU has come to symbolize.—
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The slow, mournful piano chords capture the somber bite of the scene with remarkable punch yet also a sobering stillness, and that’s before the elegiac words carry the song off into the sky.—
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Wynette’s mournful lyrics about a partner who has left—will one protagonist leave the other during the game’s main campaign?—to the sound of lonely, sad acoustic country music is the flip side of Wang Chung’s carefree spirit.—
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That would increase to 40% for productions outside of the Los Angeles area, or in economically depressed areas of Los Angeles.—
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Escorting the world's loneliest elephant across Asia In 2020, when most of the world was sealed up due to the COVID pandemic, Cher was flying around Asia fighting for Kaavan, a depressed elephant, stuck in a particularly nasty zoo in Pakistan.—
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Mourners pay respects to Pope Francis ahead of funeral Mourners from around the world pay their respects to Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.—
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For me, even in funeral masses of family and friends, that's the most powerful moment.—
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Allergies can make anyone miserable, especially when traveling.—
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Nothing’s more miserable than foot pain before the dancing’s even begun.—
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That’s the million, sorry, billion-dollar question.—
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Nobody is going to feel sorry for you, so keep your head up and keep moving forward.—
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“Heartbroken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartbroken. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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