bleak
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Tyler Biadasz suffered a serious injury to his anterior cruciate ligament in practice this week, and the prognosis sounds bleak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Baseball has a bleak history of wealthy owners unwilling to open up their wallets when it matters most—why howl about a team that unabashedly does?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Davies said the now "bleak" area was "far more" than a spot with a "beautiful view" out to sea and had been home to the island's "rarest and most valuable habitats".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Tuesday's hammering followed a bleak day on Wall Street, where the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 2.2 percent as Sandisk tanked 11 percent, while Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia gave up around five percent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Everyone—including Johnson—had assumed he would seek a second full term as president, but he knew now his chances of reelection were bleak.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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
When Raducanu dissected her French Open first-round exit just three weeks ago in Paris, things looked much bleaker.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
For the around 2,000 consumers surveyed, the sense of bleaker times to come is also now apparent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
While many see that as a major win, it doesn’t represent the bigger, bleaker picture for salmon in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 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
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
Darker though was “Disclaimer,” perhaps one of the bleakest and most challenging works of art this year.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
David Muhammad, executive director of the Oakland-based National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, rejects the bleakest depictions of the city where he grew up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
I was twenty-one years old and had been locked up for a year already—the bleakest year of my life—and I had more time ahead of me.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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