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grimness



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There’s a particular grimness to this deal happening at this moment, and with this A.I. giant.

From Slate Apr. 7, 2026

Daddis believes that “a twisted relation with faith and fear, if left unbroken, can only preordain the nation to a militarized way of life bounded by the grimness of war.”

From Salon Oct. 1, 2025

With their return to Ukraine just days away, the grimness of the future that awaits the trainees at the French base was perceptible in the men’s determined, unsmiling looks.

From Seattle Times Nov. 12, 2023

Not all the exhibition’s works portray a working-class grimness.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2023

She could do the woods in winter, and the grimness of a castle wall.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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