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
Step back, and the strategic picture is bleak for the people who planned this misfire.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
As recently as last weekend, the situation looked bleak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
We had turned towards home and, at the top of a rise, I saw the gables of Monmouth House, bleak in the distance.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
The mixed jobs picture reflects surging demand for people in healthcare and social services but a bleaker environment for government employees, factory workers and cubicle dwellers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Tenured professors doubling as groundskeepers at a $70,000-a-year private college in New England is another sign of what is shaping up as the bleakest era for America’s smaller private schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Darker though was “Disclaimer,” perhaps one of the bleakest and most challenging works of art this year.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
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
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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