grim

It’s a grim idea, that our hope is in a tool that discourages in-depth reading and a long-shot hypothetical strategy—both of which rely on technology known for sowing confusion.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Teng and her subjects are embedded in a world of tough choices and grim conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

It’s a history that remains in grim living memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

To avoid these grim scenarios, the researchers called for the world to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases -- and for future heat plans to prioritise vulnerable older people.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Mom and Dad were right in front of them, talking in low grim voices, their shoulders hunched over in defeat and dismay.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Reports David has heard from clients in Cameroon are even grimmer: the IOM has refused to facilitate medical care for some detainees, the lawyer said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

Each morning that Venezuelans wake to the aftermath of the dual earthquakes, it is a little darker, a little grimmer.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

That’s a turnaround from their much grimmer forecasts last fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Disney’s latest animated film, “Zootopia 2,” a sequel to its 2016 box-office juggernaut, isn’t exactly an adult political drama, though the stakes certainly feel grimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

If anything, he sounded grimmer than he had sounded on the Henry.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

He volunteered at the very start and has survived some of the grimmest battles.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Despite the market’s record-setting pace, anxiety about the war in Iran has left Americans in the grimmest economic mood on record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Most of this year’s documentary nominees deal with the grimmest of tragedies, as in “All the Empty Rooms” and “Children No More: Were and Are Gone,” which address the remembrance of children brutally killed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Behind the scenes, his producers eagerly exploited the grimmest episodes of vulnerable people’s lives, never disabusing them of the false assumption that appearing on “Springer” would somehow help them.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond