gloomy
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Skies are frequently overcast, and winters are cold, gray and gloomy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Despite the gloomy results, Warner’s stock climbed more than 1% in early Thursday trading to $26.25.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Under gloomy skies, Lewandowski blazed a spot-kick over the bar as Fire's training session came to an end and Iraola's got under way.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
But in a gloomy sign, fixed-asset investment slid 5.7 percent on-year in the first half.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
And in a gloomy place like Daffodil Manor, her brightness seemed even more incandescent.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
The picture was gloomier in Europe, with new listings raising just $13.3 billion on the continent across 83 deals, according to Mergermarket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
U.S. stocks took a breather from their rally to fresh record highs on Tuesday as investors confronted a gloomier inflation backdrop.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 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
What might look like bad news is that Tesla’s compilation of Wall Street’s estimates is gloomier than other readings—namely, an average delivery figure of 445,061 vehicles based on a Bloomberg compilation of analyst forecasts.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
His Stygian iron blade seemed to make the shadows even gloomier, as if the infernal metal was drawing the light and heat out of the air.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
It was the gloomiest, most depressing bathroom Harry had ever set foot in.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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