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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

“A Past Without Pictures” is a bleak but intermittently lyrical work with lean prose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

So I was definitely in a bit of a funk, a bit of a bleak period, when I did the next stupid thing.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

The situation has grown bleaker in the last decade and a half as commercial pressures have ramped up and media consolidation and digital shortsightedness have obliterated arts coverage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Last month, the multilateral lender's World Economic Outlook predicted global growth would drop to 3.1 percent in 2026 in its "reference" scenario, but warned of a bleaker outlook if the war were to drag on.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

However, Arsenal themselves have a much bleaker record as they've been top at Christmas four times before but have never gone on to lift the trophy.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

“The situation is undoubtedly bleaker now,” they wrote.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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

Just as things were looking their bleakest for Venkatesh, another man appeared.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt