bleak
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“This generation is looking at a fairly bleak situation,” said Fred Neumann, chief Asia economist at HSBC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Moss KC said it was a "somewhat bleak but candid assessment of the scale of the problem", which Emmett agreed with.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The former Iraqi president -- himself a one time refugee -- spelled out the bleak situation while opening UNHCR's annual executive committee meeting, which runs until Friday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
If the recent terms are a prologue, the coming term is bleak.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
The part of Germany I was in was bleak, flat, and dreary.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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
Students are under more stress today than their predecessors, he said, including the distraction of social media, bleaker job prospects and less secure economic conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Many in Hollywood fear that the consolidation of two historic studios will bring thousands of layoffs and contribute to a bleaker employment picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
What happened next was described by one reviewer as one of Rai's bleakest ever live broadcasts, when its flagship Rai 1 channel had an audience share of more than 46%.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
In theory, scientists can get energy from the Casimir effect even at absolute zero in the bleakest part of the vacuum of space.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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