gloomy
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Or, if you prefer, he sees possibility everywhere and she is perpetually gloomy about humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Adding to the gloomy data was another government report showing that sales of new US homes pulled back in April, as higher costs weighed on consumers.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Consumers also have never felt this gloomy about the U.S. economy before.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
The trees were big, and the foliage was thick but it was not gloomy.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
A series of supply shocks have rippled through the U.S. economy over the past several years, leaving households stuck with a gloomier perception of their financial situations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Consumer spending still accounts for two-thirds of gross domestic product, and Americans have rarely felt gloomier about shopping–even as they continue to open their wallets.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Pushing back at gloomier forecasts of AI job disruption, OpenAI economists have released a study showing that just 18% of U.S. jobs are at a “relatively higher risk” of being eliminated in the near term.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026
The increase came as respondents' views of current business and job market conditions improved, though their outlooks for the future were gloomier.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
Snape had imposed his personality upon the room already; it was gloomier than usual, as curtains had been drawn over the windows, and was lit by candlelight.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Even the gloomiest prognosticator thinks a formal default is highly unlikely, and the idea that it might happen within six years is in the very outside realm of risk.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
“I’m the gloomiest I’ve been since 1979,” one economist told The Wall Street Journal at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Slap-bang in the middle of a month that is all about freezing drizzle and self-denial, the third Monday in January is notoriously the gloomiest day of the year.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
On a stormy, steamy summer day in 2003, as I approached the Gasometer Oberhausen, which the Third Reich used for fuel storage, I expected the enormous cylindrical structure would prove the gloomiest building in Germany.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
I took dinner usually at the Yale Club--for some reason it was the gloomiest event of my day--and then I went upstairs to the library and studied investments and securities for a conscientious hour.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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