gloom
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Looking across the city, only a few patches of light survive, scattered in the gloom.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a response to the gloom about artificial intelligence coming from both inside and outside the industry.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
She detested the East Coast avatars of apocalypse, like Nathanael West, who saw only doom and gloom in sunny L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
Poised for flight, with my heart thumping, I peered closer, my eyes adjusting to the gloom.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
Shawn glooms about "the Nineteenth Year of Service" that hangs over his future.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Look what is happening to us," he glooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Wind is changing!’ he cried, and with that, in a twinkling as it seemed, he and his fellows had vanished into the glooms, never to be seen by any Rider of Rohan again.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger—a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"—might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the same mood, Episcopal Layman William Stringfellow gloomed that "the most practical thing to do now is weep."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Icons gloomed from the porticoes or raised stiff fingers in the glinting chapels.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation.
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
Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.
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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