bleak
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Like you’re like forced to be happy with everything bleak that’s going on?
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 21, 2026
Under-30s have described missing out on being able to "let loose and mess around" because of a "bleak" lack of nightlife where they live.
From BBC β Oct. 17, 2026
Their gatherings can be an antidote to the bleak upstate New York winters in a town where few nearby bars cater to students.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 16, 2026
If the recent terms are a prologue, the coming term is bleak.
From Slate β Oct. 6, 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 β Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
For young Americans, though, the job landscape was much bleaker.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 13, 2026
When Raducanu dissected her French Open first-round exit just three weeks ago in Paris, things looked much bleaker.
From BBC β 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 β Feb. 12, 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 β Nov. 13, 2025
That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The final twist is one of the bleakest endings in postwar fiction, precisely because it exposes survival itself as a kind of illusion.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 22, 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 β Mar. 20, 2026
Darker though was “Disclaimer,” perhaps one of the bleakest and most challenging works of art this year.
From Salon β 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 β Mar. 14, 2024
June and July were the bleakest months on Robben Island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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