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And for much of the game Sunday, gloom once again engulfed McVay and a team that opened the season as a heavy Super Bowl favorite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Paris Women's Fashion Week opens Monday with a debut show from South African brand MaXhosa Africa and a fresh collection from new-ish Canadian trendsetters Matieres Fecales, look to lift the gloom surrounding the sector.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

He scores some brilliant goals too, as does Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, so I don't think it will be all doom and gloom for Everton fans this season, despite their frustration at the moment.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

They watched her head and shoulders disappear into the gloom, then her body, then her legs and feet.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams of crippled psyches, and a John Osborne casts about in it for new glooms and repeated angers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales.

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

"No," gloomed Lord Cranborne, "it is not being fortified by leave of anyone."

From Time Magazine Archive

"The shattered moderate leadership of the party," gloomed the Milwaukee Journal, "may be unable to pick itself up off the floor and do serious battle."

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

He snorted, gloomed, looked up into Chamberlain’s eyes and blinked.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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

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

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