gloomy
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Edwar has been advocating for women's causes for over 50 years and her assessment is gloomy: "Twenty-three years after Saddam Hussein's regime was brought down, it seems we are going backwards regarding women's rights."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
A fascinating passage of play halted when things get too gloomy.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The University of Michigan’s consumer-sentiment survey produced gloomy findings, with the index falling to 46.3 in its preliminary October reading, versus 48.1 in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Sometimes we all need some joy in life, such as contemplating the fattest bears without all the other gloomy stuff in the world.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
We entered the gloomy little building, and the man switched off the flashlight.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
The only thing gloomier than the leaden skies at lunch on day of the third Test at Edgbaston will have been the mood in the Pakistan dressing room as things went from bad to worse.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
A series of supply shocks have rippled through the U.S. economy over the past several years, leaving households stuck with a gloomier perception of their financial situations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
U.S. stocks took a breather from their rally to fresh record highs on Tuesday as investors confronted a gloomier inflation backdrop.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
The increase came as respondents' views of current business and job market conditions improved, though their outlooks for the future were gloomier.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
Another Christmas comes and goes and the holiday feels gloomier than ever.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Some of the gloomiest predictions say the human race will be wiped out if it gets in the way of a superintelligent AI's ambitions.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Even the gloomiest prognosticator thinks a formal default is highly unlikely, and the idea that it might happen within six years is in the very outside realm of risk.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
“I’m the gloomiest I’ve been since 1979,” one economist told The Wall Street Journal at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
I ended up with a string of the gloomiest conversations in my long career — and I’ve covered two foreign civil wars and more stock market crashes and economic slumps than I can count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
“In the gloomiest moments of the Revolutionary War,” he wrote in 1820, “I never had any apprehensions equal to what I feel from this source.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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