despondency
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As Europe faces a host of economic challenges, an excessive despondency about its current condition may be one of the more pernicious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The ’90s-era nihilism that threaded so many of Araki’s films has taken a hard slant toward technological despondency.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
There's a lot of despondency in Scottish Labour, and perhaps that shouldn't be too surprising.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Arsenal's joy in Italy contrasted with despondency in Norway for Premier League heavyweights Man City.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
“I too still believed that I had found something new,” he would later write, with more than a tinge of envy and despondency.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing despondency
A Wrinkle in Time
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The Gene
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Bill Parcells' Hall of Fame Induction Speech
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