gloomy
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Gloomy weather has helped drive up February half-term holiday bookings by 9% compared to last year, according to a group of travel agents.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
Gloomy year-ahead forecasts from Wall Street banks have piled up in the past week, although a strong November jobs report released on Friday undercut the case for an imminent slowdown in the U.S. economy.
From Reuters • Dec. 2, 2022
Gloomy octopuses can now be added to this list.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
Gloomy cold weather greeted them on Jan. 2, 2016.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2018
Gloomy and oppressive though the house was, it had been their one safe refuge: even, now that Kreacher was so much happier and friendlier, a kind of home.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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