gloomy
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Hedge-fund-rich Sang-woo has an air of cool privilege, while the gloomy, taciturn Ho-seok harbors unprocessed trauma about what happened during the strike, the details of which are judiciously doled out to us in flashbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
On Monday, home builders reported a gloomy outlook, as buyer traffic fell to a 14-year low.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The world's second-largest economy has charted a diverging path in recent years -- an AI-fuelled export boom is masking the impact of a persistent real estate crisis and gloomy consumer sentiment.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
With Indian drinkers proving a beacon in a gloomy landscape for the drinks business, Pernod said it is taking preparatory stops for a potential initial public offer of its business in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Another gloomy day had settled over the mountains.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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
OpenAI has done an in-depth study at just what AI disruption means for the jobs market, pushing back at some gloomier forecasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Pushing back at gloomier forecasts of AI job disruption, OpenAI economists have released a study showing that just 18% of U.S. jobs are at a “relatively higher risk” of being eliminated in the near term.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 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
His Stygian iron blade seemed to make the shadows even gloomier, as if the infernal metal was drawing the light and heat out of the air.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
Hell, we’ve got the gloomiest place of all: the United Kingdom.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
“In the gloomiest moments of the Revolutionary War,” he wrote in 1820, “I never had any apprehensions equal to what I feel from this source.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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