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On his way out, Kiffin did a Nixon on the South Lawn interview with ESPN’s SEC correspondent Marty Smith, the two of them chatting somberly as an LSU jet beckoned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Well, three weeks ago feels like a parallel universe for those somberly returning home from across the continent.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

When I first started doing this work via Streets for All in 2019, we used to somberly state that a pedestrian is killed once every three days in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2024

Congregants somberly talked about the war as they gathered in the lobby.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2023

In a New Zealand television interview following the expedition, Hall somberly described how he took their favorite climbing rope and lowered Ball’s body into the depths of the glacier.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer