bleak
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Here the surroundings are less bleak, the library better, the prisoners friendlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Facing a bleak prognosis, he went into hurry-up mode to provide security for his family — and information for his readers — as best he could in the time he had left.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The bleak area shown here was the largest playground in the Black Belt.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
Students are under more stress today than their predecessors, he said, including the distraction of social media, bleaker job prospects and less secure economic conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
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
Thirty-odd years later, the cycle is repeating, with even bleaker results.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 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
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
Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism?
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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