gloom

Looking across the city, only a few patches of light survive, scattered in the gloom.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

He's far from alone and is part of a rising cohort of "kidults" - consumers over the age of 12, who are trying to counter the "doom and gloom" of adult life, an expert said.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a response to the gloom about artificial intelligence coming from both inside and outside the industry.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Ahead in the gloom, the terrain leveled out into a black swamp.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011

"The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's."

From Time Magazine Archive

But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams of crippled psyches, and a John Osborne casts about in it for new glooms and repeated angers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Winston Churchill augustly gloomed: "A great world statesman has fallen, and with him his country will undergo a period of anxiety and perhaps a temporary eclipse."

From Time Magazine Archive

Adolf Hitler's mistress was a pudgy, middle-class blonde who gloomed more than she glittered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hotelmen, chambers of commerce, merchants and convention bureaus in 38 U.S. cities gloomed that the half-billion-dollar annual convention "industry" is all washed up until the war is won.

From Time Magazine Archive

Icons gloomed from the porticoes or raised stiff fingers in the glinting chapels.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021

More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

After glooming for years over the falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr