leaden
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Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Sweeney is good, even when the leaden dialogue does her a disservice.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025
Standing in for Stokes, Ollie Pope would have been desperate to win the toss under a leaden sky on a green pitch.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025
In that void, Alfonso Manas, a researcher from the University of Granada, sees a fallen fighter, struck down by the leaden women above her.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024
But my lips are frozen, and my body is leaden as if earth’s gravity has tripled in the very spot I’m standing.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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