bleak
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Here the surroundings are less bleak, the library better, the prisoners friendlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
At the same time, it is potentially a rare chink of light in a bleak picture.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Tuesday's hammering followed a bleak day on Wall Street, where the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 2.2 percent as Sandisk tanked 11 percent, while Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia gave up around five percent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
People are staying home, she says, because of bleak economics, dating apps, streaming services and the fear of being caught behaving badly on camera phones—all leading to a sharp decline in nightlife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
The mixed jobs picture reflects surging demand for people in healthcare and social services but a bleaker environment for government employees, factory workers and cubicle dwellers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
However, Arsenal themselves have a much bleaker record as they've been top at Christmas four times before but have never gone on to lift the trophy.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Capital Economics sees a bleaker future for gold.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
Thirty-odd years later, the cycle is repeating, with even bleaker results.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
“The situation is undoubtedly bleaker now,” they wrote.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
The final twist is one of the bleakest endings in postwar fiction, precisely because it exposes survival itself as a kind of illusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
A dark comedy is only as successful as its bleakest jokes.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
When I graduated from UC–Berkeley with my “useless” comparative literature degree, into one of the bleakest job markets in recent American memory, I thought to myself, There must be a loophole somewhere.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
It's the bleakest of milestones, with little sign that after six months, the war is likely to end any time soon.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
June and July were the bleakest months on Robben Island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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