light heart
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Sonko, a popular figure among Senegal's youth, said on social media that he would "sleep with a light heart".
From BBC • May 23, 2026
One very rare serious side effect has come to light: heart inflammation.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021
And so you have to have a light heart.
From Fox News • Oct. 26, 2021
With his light heart and “can-do” demeanor — qualities the world embraced as quintessentially American — Zorro soon dominated action-film iconography.
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020
I lay there for a long time staring at total blackness and knew that never again would I sleep in the woods with a light heart.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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