grim
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The news was grim: By the time the indebted workers reached their 40s, their median account balances were about 45% less than those who didn’t borrow for higher education.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 15, 2026
But we should also realize that the engineers who are so ready to offer grim characterizations of what they’ve created are much less willing to make any substantial process overhauls.
From Slate β Sep. 15, 2026
California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 13, 2026
“It was rather grim, and people hated these two ugly filing cabinets coming out of the ground,” said Whiteman, 88.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 9, 2026
But there was a grim menace out here, not only in the master’s manner but in the desolation of our surroundings.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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 β Jul. 7, 2026
It doesn’t even matter that Balogun’s red card for mashing a Bosnia and Herzegovina opponent’s leg was a bit much—an overreaction to a bang-bang play that looked grimmer in slow-motion.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 6, 2026
Hopefully the people who come to us for the light, fun, enjoyable take on Westeros will stick with us through some of the harder, trickier, grimmer moments.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 22, 2026
Other, grimmer recent headlines help to explain why.
From Slate β Jun. 17, 2024
If anyone found out, anyone, things'd get grimmer than I dared imagine.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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 β Apr. 24, 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 β Jan. 7, 2025
It could be argued that the grimmest portrayals of nuclear war — the opposite of what “Fallout” does — don’t serve anyone better than downplaying the risks and the aftermath of apocalypse.
From Los Angeles Times β May 9, 2024
For now, however, the grimmest of eventualities may have been avoided—all thanks to a mixture of luck and Icelandic proactivity.
From National Geographic β Dec. 19, 2023
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
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