gloomy
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Against a gloomy backdrop for software sentiment, ServiceNow just topped revenue expectations.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Outside of the gloomy team, though, there was still cause for Scottish celebration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Wall Street's advances on Thursday came despite several gloomy indicators, with the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rising in April to its highest since 2023 and first quarter economic growth being revised lower.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Unable to ignore her gloomy presence any longer, he finally asked, “What’s the matter with you? We been getting more calls? You can’t let them get to you.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Consumer spending still accounts for two-thirds of gross domestic product, and Americans have rarely felt gloomier about shopping–even as they continue to open their wallets.
From Barron's ● May 18, 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
What might look like bad news is that Tesla’s compilation of Wall Street’s estimates is gloomier than other readings—namely, an average delivery figure of 445,061 vehicles based on a Bloomberg compilation of analyst forecasts.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
But employees grew gloomier as a cooling labor market gave employers the upper hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
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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