bleak
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Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods tumbled toward their worst day in three years on Tuesday, as the sporting-goods retailer’s bleak earnings report revealed that people needed deeper discounts to buy athletic shoes and clothes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Dmitry Muratov paints a bleak picture of life in Russia for critics of the authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Here the surroundings are less bleak, the library better, the prisoners friendlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Baseball has a bleak history of wealthy owners unwilling to open up their wallets when it matters most—why howl about a team that unabashedly does?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Is Angel okay up there?” he asked, glancing up at the bleak and depressing apartment building.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
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
Students are under more stress today than their predecessors, he said, including the distraction of social media, bleaker job prospects and less secure economic conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
However, Arsenal themselves have a much bleaker record as they've been top at Christmas four times before but have never gone on to lift the trophy.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
But the signs are that the near future, at least, will be economically bleaker than the present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The final twist is one of the bleakest endings in postwar fiction, precisely because it exposes survival itself as a kind of illusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
The last connects to the bleakest memory outie Mark and his wife share – a miscarriage that followed months of difficulty conceiving.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
But as any MacGyver episode will show you, when things look bleakest, that’s about the time you turn a corner.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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