depressing
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Rebounding from dreadfully depressing injury news to knock out the NBA’s best rebounding team?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Earlier, solicitor Nicola Ryan-Donnelly, from law firm Fletcher's, which is representing 22 of the injured and traumatised children, said the findings were "disturbing and frankly depressing".
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
As they exit the workforce, their pay dips sharply, depressing the average inflation-adjusted disposable personal income.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Seibert, who learned to code at age 12, said he’s found the transition depressing at times because a skill he’s spent his life perfecting is “just gone. It’s not needed anymore.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
It must actually be quite a depressing moment—to have slogged through a mountainous wilderness for ten or eleven weeks and to realize that for all that effort you are still but halfway there.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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