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Despite the one-year decline, bitcoin’s prospects look considerably less bleak than over the summer, during which time prices fell as low as $58,000 in June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

If the recent terms are a prologue, the coming term is bleak.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

And to create this air of discomfort, Fennell crafted a movie that darts from hopeful to despairingly bleak in the blink of an eye.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Consumer sentiment surveys paint a bleak picture right now, but consumers are spending briskly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Everyone—including Johnson—had assumed he would seek a second full term as president, but he knew now his chances of reelection were bleak.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

For young Americans, though, the job landscape was much bleaker.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

The situation has grown bleaker in the last decade and a half as commercial pressures have ramped up and media consolidation and digital shortsightedness have obliterated arts coverage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Trust me when I say it was even bleaker than that sounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Last month, the multilateral lender's World Economic Outlook predicted global growth would drop to 3.1 percent in 2026 in its "reference" scenario, but warned of a bleaker outlook if the war were to drag on.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Tenured professors doubling as groundskeepers at a $70,000-a-year private college in New England is another sign of what is shaping up as the bleakest era for America’s smaller private schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

What happened next was described by one reviewer as one of Rai's bleakest ever live broadcasts, when its flagship Rai 1 channel had an audience share of more than 46%.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

Since this scene plays more than halfway through the second season in an episode called “Last Drink,” we recognize this as the bleakest version of “famous last words.”

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024

I was twenty-one years old and had been locked up for a year already—the bleakest year of my life—and I had more time ahead of me.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos