"tear-jerker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08:",
          "text": "The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.",
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