gloomy
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Despite the gloomy results, Warner’s stock climbed more than 1% in early Thursday trading to $26.25.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Under gloomy skies, Lewandowski blazed a spot-kick over the bar as Fire's training session came to an end and Iraola's got under way.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Outside of the gloomy team, though, there was still cause for Scottish celebration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The simple explanation: more gloomy housing market data can’t beat hopes that an easing of geopolitical tensions will improve mortgage rates and home demand.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
I expected to see a dark, gloomy, miserable day; but I was surprised.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The only thing gloomier than the leaden skies at lunch on day of the third Test at Edgbaston will have been the mood in the Pakistan dressing room as things went from bad to worse.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
U.S. stocks took a breather from their rally to fresh record highs on Tuesday as investors confronted a gloomier inflation backdrop.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
The increase came as respondents' views of current business and job market conditions improved, though their outlooks for the future were gloomier.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
Things will undoubtedly look a lot gloomier in markets if tech’s penchant for overspending becomes a definitive miscalculation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Another Christmas comes and goes and the holiday feels gloomier than ever.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Even the gloomiest prognosticator thinks a formal default is highly unlikely, and the idea that it might happen within six years is in the very outside realm of risk.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
“I’m the gloomiest I’ve been since 1979,” one economist told The Wall Street Journal at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Slap-bang in the middle of a month that is all about freezing drizzle and self-denial, the third Monday in January is notoriously the gloomiest day of the year.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
I ended up with a string of the gloomiest conversations in my long career — and I’ve covered two foreign civil wars and more stock market crashes and economic slumps than I can count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
They are the gloomiest pictures I’ve ever made, the faces of the boys all blurry and ghostly.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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