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
SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
There was some early doom and gloom for the Brits, and for a moment it felt like we wouldn't have any home singles players left at all.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Even in the gloom, I can see her face flame red.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
Joey's thin, sad face glooms out of the card's corner as if he felt the same way.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's."
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
"How the money can be found is not my business," gloomed Transport Commission Chairman General Sir Brian Robertson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election.
From Time Magazine Archive
In it, jobbers gloomed that they are under the thumb of Fruit Dispatch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sergeant Tozier had come up, that big-nosed man, towered over the lieutenant, gloomed down at him.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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
The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw.
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
More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation.
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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