gloom
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Looking across the city, only a few patches of light survive, scattered in the gloom.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a response to the gloom about artificial intelligence coming from both inside and outside the industry: AI will be helpful for both the economy and society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
She detested the East Coast avatars of apocalypse, like Nathanael West, who saw only doom and gloom in sunny L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
But it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom - we've found some reasons to be cheerful.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Riptide’s Celestial bronze blade glowed even brighter in the gloom of Tartarus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016
Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011
"The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's."
From Time Magazine Archive
Church adored Turner, the greatest theatrician of landscape who ever lived, with his cloud arches and burning transparencies, his glooms and veils of color.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Wind is changing!’ he cried, and with that, in a twinkling as it seemed, he and his fellows had vanished into the glooms, never to be seen by any Rider of Rohan again.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"No," gloomed Lord Cranborne, "it is not being fortified by leave of anyone."
From Time Magazine Archive
This, gloomed Alsop, would be an "irreparable disaster."
From Time Magazine Archive
Hotelmen, chambers of commerce, merchants and convention bureaus in 38 U.S. cities gloomed that the half-billion-dollar annual convention "industry" is all washed up until the war is won.
From Time Magazine Archive
"How the money can be found is not my business," gloomed Transport Commission Chairman General Sir Brian Robertson.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hall was gloomed with the dot of yellow light from an oil lamp turned down so low that it jerked expiringly.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: A green glooming fluid in a sticky bottle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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