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There’s Trent Williams, the star left tackle and one of the faces of Washington’s franchise in the 2010s whose refusal to play after a botched cancer diagnosis enveloped the team in a fog of gloom for all of last year.
PLAYING THE 49ERS REMINDS OF PAST FAILURES, BUT WASHINGTON FINALLY SEEMS TO HAVE MOVED ONLES CARPENTERDECEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POST
A similar story played out for Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, a Delhi-based musician, whose songwriting emerged out of the loneliness and gloom of the pandemic.
HOW INDIA’S INDIE MUSICIANS CAME OUT OF BOLLYWOOD’S SHADOW DURING THE PANDEMICMANAVI KAPURDECEMBER 4, 2020QUARTZ
Families are putting up Christmas lights early to offset the gloom.
A FEDEX DRIVER SAW A BOY PLAY BASKETBALL WITH A RUSTY HOOP. SHE WENT TO A STORE AND BOUGHT HIM A NEW ONE.CATHY FREENOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Comet 67P spent most of its lifetime—billions of years—in the dim gloom of the Kuiper Belt, a region of the outer solar system that extends well beyond Pluto.
THESE IMAGES EXPOSE THE DARK SIDE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDECOREY S. POWELLAUGUST 26, 2020NAUTILUS
As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
She saw his back for an instant against the pale gloom of the garden, in which vapour was curling.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT
He spoke Urdu exceedingly well, and it was difficult in the gloom to recognize him as a European.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Once more these huge explosions unloading their cargoes of midnight on to the evening gloom.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
He may be considered as one of the learned few whose genius dissipated the gloom of the 8th century.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
Then he suddenly became aware that out of the gloom a figure had risen and stood beside him.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOOD

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