gloomy
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Hedge-fund-rich Sang-woo has an air of cool privilege, while the gloomy, taciturn Ho-seok harbors unprocessed trauma about what happened during the strike, the details of which are judiciously doled out to us in flashbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
On Monday, home builders reported a gloomy outlook, as buyer traffic fell to a 14-year low.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The world's second-largest economy has charted a diverging path in recent years -- an AI-fuelled export boom is masking the impact of a persistent real estate crisis and gloomy consumer sentiment.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
Edwar has been advocating for women's causes for over 50 years and her assessment is gloomy: "Twenty-three years after Saddam Hussein's regime was brought down, it seems we are going backwards regarding women's rights."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
I booted a pinecone way up the gloomy path.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
The only thing gloomier than the leaden skies at lunch on day of the third Test at Edgbaston will have been the mood in the Pakistan dressing room as things went from bad to worse.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Although it is still early, several new signals suggest employers are boosting entry-level hiring this spring after much gloomier projections just months ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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
OpenAI has done an in-depth study at just what AI disruption means for the jobs market, pushing back at some gloomier forecasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
As Lina ran through the city with her messages on her first day back to work, it seemed to her that the mood of the people was even gloomier than before.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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
Hell, we’ve got the gloomiest place of all: the United Kingdom.
From Slate ● May 25, 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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