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This year, they ramped up their home display, deploying a grim reaper, a zombie, animal skeletons and Oogie Boogie from “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Not as a grim exercise in virtue, but because I want the vegetables to be things I actually look forward to eating.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

But in a grim moment last year, he realized he was several thousand dollars short of the roughly $28,000-annual minimum to qualify for healthcare through actors union SAG-AFTRA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Still, the overall picture is grim for Iran’s economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Percy kicked the dust on the rocks, his expression grim and dissatisfied.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Reports David has heard from clients in Cameroon are even grimmer: the IOM has refused to facilitate medical care for some detainees, the lawyer said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

It doesn’t even matter that Balogun’s red card for mashing a Bosnia and Herzegovina opponent’s leg was a bit much—an overreaction to a bang-bang play that looked grimmer in slow-motion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Disney’s latest animated film, “Zootopia 2,” a sequel to its 2016 box-office juggernaut, isn’t exactly an adult political drama, though the stakes certainly feel grimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

But as bad as the disruptions and damage to public schools will be, Mahmoud will be infamous for grimmer reasons.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

The square line of his jaw seemed a little sterner and grimmer.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

In the grimmest bad taste, the letter gave Haifa until “7 October 2026” to respond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Behind the scenes, his producers eagerly exploited the grimmest episodes of vulnerable people’s lives, never disabusing them of the false assumption that appearing on “Springer” would somehow help them.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

It could be argued that the grimmest portrayals of nuclear war — the opposite of what “Fallout” does — don’t serve anyone better than downplaying the risks and the aftermath of apocalypse.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

For now, however, the grimmest of eventualities may have been avoided—all thanks to a mixture of luck and Icelandic proactivity.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 19, 2023

The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond