bleak
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Appeared in the February 7, 2026, print edition as 'A Bleak New York Nocturne'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
It’s called Interesting Times, rather than Foreboding Times, Quixotic Times, or Bleak Times—which is an indication of where he stands.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025
Bleak House, he said, while already considered in a bad state of repair in 2000, was now "shuttered up and rotting away even more".
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
Bleak urban neighborhoods with neglected parks, crumbling apartments and harried, underpaid teachers.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
Bleak as the area was, there was no money for anything better; the low wages paid by Swift and his fellow packers kept the unskilled masses living in squalor.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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