bleak
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Practically no one wanted to be quoted on the bleak outlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Dmitry Muratov paints a bleak picture of life in Russia for critics of the authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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
People are staying home, she says, because of bleak economics, dating apps, streaming services and the fear of being caught behaving badly on camera phones—all leading to a sharp decline in nightlife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The future for us in Kraków looked bleak.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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
Trust me when I say it was even bleaker than that sounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
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
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
His music was what had brightened the bleakest days of his boyhood.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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