bleak
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If the recent terms are a prologue, the coming term is bleak.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Consumer sentiment surveys paint a bleak picture right now, but consumers are spending briskly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
You may not be earning a six-figure salary like that other letter writer, but your outlook is far less bleak than the initial arithmetic suggests.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Step back, and the strategic picture is bleak for the people who planned this misfire.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
They sat with their heels dug into the sand and watched the bleak sea wash up at their feet.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
For young Americans, though, the job landscape was much bleaker.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Though China’s official urban unemployment rate has remained steady at around 5%, some economists believe the actual labor-market picture is bleaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
When Raducanu dissected her French Open first-round exit just three weeks ago in Paris, things looked much bleaker.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
There’s no bleaker satire than making it through “The Running Man’s” end credits, past images of a raised fist that reads “Together Against the Network,” to see the last words on screen: A Skydance Corporation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
“The situation is undoubtedly bleaker now,” they wrote.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Even in the bleakest moments, we took great comfort in their support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
A dark comedy is only as successful as its bleakest jokes.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
When I graduated from UC–Berkeley with my “useless” comparative literature degree, into one of the bleakest job markets in recent American memory, I thought to myself, There must be a loophole somewhere.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Just when the divisions seemed bleakest, I ran into Jim Kusters, a retiree and Trump supporter who was sitting for breakfast in Mt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024
But as any MacGyver episode will show you, when things look bleakest, that’s about the time you turn a corner.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Vocabulary lists containing bleak
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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