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Rarely do you get to feel, as pitiably as you do here, Stanley’s primal anger and Blanche’s folly.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2023

Heavier vehicles require more energy for propulsion, which helps explain why gas-powered SUVs and trucks have pitiably low fuel efficiency compared to sedans.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2023

Past business plans for Pevek have failed pitiably.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

The gesture proved prophetic: within a decade, surging Pop art and minimalism had rendered de Kooning and his many followers, in the eyes of art-world cognoscenti, pitiably passé.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

Leaving the once mighty kingdom of Yemen thus pitiably and for ever fallen from its high estate, we turn northward into the main stream of Arabian history.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

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