gloom
Example Sentences
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Under the best-in-class floodlights at Tottenham, the finale of Saracens v Northampton played out in HD technicolour compared to the relative gloom of Kingston Park and Exeter's win over Newcastle Red Bulls.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Through all of this, the film remains focused on human experience, rendered with something approaching optimism despite the radioactive gloom that surrounds it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
For now, though, the weakness in bank stocks looks more like a temporary dislocation for some of the big banks and not a harbinger of economic doom and gloom.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
This positions bitcoin as a more long-term play, but in her opinion, current bitcoin doom and gloom will look “as dated as the early internet bubble calls.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026
R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.—Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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