gloom
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The lead up to the World Cup was no different, but the doom and gloom went away once the action began.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
A. I find that the best antidote to gloom is a chat with somebody who’s both a visionary and highly practical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s not all doom and gloom in the software sector, as some high-profile stocks have posted standout gains this year while their peers languish.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
More disappointing is watching a role held aloft by Witherspoon’s charisma and unsinkable pep be submerged in attitudinal gloom despite Minetree’s best efforts.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
But thinking of her this way made his gloom fade.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016
Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011
He glooms that it costs him plenty to be cheap, since he feels he has to tip extra because of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joey's thin, sad face glooms out of the card's corner as if he felt the same way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
When Germany is defeated, they gloomed, consumer interest will turn from clothes, which have been relatively plentiful, to goods that will go into production when the war pinch eases.
From Time Magazine Archive
"How the money can be found is not my business," gloomed Transport Commission Chairman General Sir Brian Robertson.
From Time Magazine Archive
They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adolf Hitler's mistress was a pudgy, middle-class blonde who gloomed more than she glittered.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hall was gloomed with the dot of yellow light from an oil lamp turned down so low that it jerked expiringly.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: A green glooming fluid in a sticky bottle.
From Time Magazine Archive
After glooming for years over the falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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