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

Under leaden skies in St John's Wood, South Africa exploited favourable bowling conditions after Bavuma had won the toss.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 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

They’ve accomplished it, but at the expense of engagement, resulting in a collection of leaden scenes that might make the audience want to claw out of its own skin.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

Out there was the gray beach with the slow combers rolling dull and leaden and the distant sound of it.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy