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But those most affected are residents at the epicentre, including in Kalimantan's Palangkaraya where skies turned deep orange on Wednesday night and remained a grimy yellow on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime” starts grimy and sinks lower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Much about the grimy parts of Burning Man is left unmentioned, leaving it up to Redditors to gripe about sanitation pile-ups departing Burners leave in nearby towns.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

A plainspoken veteran with a dense beard and a closet full of grimy sweatshirts, Platner fit the bill.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

“To the grimy dark dungeon of the decrepit palace.”

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

More than a decade after scam rap emerged from the buzzier, grimier corners of Detroit hip-hop, a scammer anthem from a South Floridian is arguably the song of the summer.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

While the trailer invited comparisons to “Child’s Play,” the slasher film featuring the doll Chucky, that movie had a much grimier, disreputable undercurrent before the sequels and reboots turned goofy.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Though not exactly nostalgic for grimier times, she eventually finds she’s become an old-timer, no longer delighted by change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

The “Cinema Novo” movement of social realism commented and pushed back against this political shift, but in that same year, a singular iconoclast mounted a grimier, bloodier form of rebellion newly relevant to our present.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2020

It’s grimier than when I clean my usual spot at lunch.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

Deep-cleaning crews have visited many of the grimiest concrete subterranean stations — in some cases, for the first time in years.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2017

“The difference in the game was we were playing basketball, and they were playing MMA,” Millsap said, frustrated after one of the grimiest 114-107 games you ever will witness.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2017

And it’s hands down, to quote Beyoncé, the grimiest song I’ve heard all year.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2014

Young Jon, however, insisted on driving around in a beat-up van and eating in the grimiest diners possible.

From Time ● May 12, 2011

Every inch of grass was covered with tents—row after crooked row of the grimiest, droopiest tents Nate had ever seen.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis