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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triste
Adjective
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Stewart is still thanked by gay fans by creating such a rare, highly visible (albeit sad) representation.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
27 May 2025 -
My back hurt from that sad excuse for a chair (seriously, who designs dining chairs to feel like medieval torture devices?).—
Renae Gregoire,
Forbes.com,
27 May 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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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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The cameras lingered on crestfallen Aston Villa faces.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The video began with a clip of a seemingly forlorn Bronx sitting alone on a bed, looking visibly puzzled.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Charlie Rangel was on his way to being another forlorn New Yorker born during the Depression and raised during WWII, dropping out of high school with two years to go.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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The New York Fed’s latest Survey of Consumer Expectations data released Monday added more glum outlooks to the growing pile of sour sentiment readings from Americans at a time when unpredictable federal policies have caused uncertainty and recession fears to spike.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
14 Apr. 2025
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By examining lots of logical reasoning examples, the aim is that the budding AI will mathematically and computationally glum onto how to best perform logical reasoning.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Low gas prices have been a bright spot for the US economy amid an overall gloomy outlook due to President Donald Trump’s trade war and a decline in consumer sentiment.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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Their everlasting merrymaking might seem warm and fuzzy at first glance, but in truth, there is a gloomy undercurrent to their existence, hiding just beneath the surface.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
25 May 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
Adjective
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Malec does not have to worry about Bauer getting too excited when everything is going right or Bauer becoming despondent in tough times.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
29 May 2025
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Come day’s end, less than 48 hours removed from that Friday 64, following a week of extremes, Homa stood despondent, sounding like a man ready to walk away from it all.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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