leaden

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Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Standing in for Stokes, Ollie Pope would have been desperate to win the toss under a leaden sky on a green pitch.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

But Eggers abandons this tack and steers back toward leaden homage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

In that void, Alfonso Manas, a researcher from the University of Granada, sees a fallen fighter, struck down by the leaden women above her.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024

Narragansett assigned Seabiscuit a leaden 132 pounds, while Hawthorne gave him 128.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand