gloom
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This gloom, though, looks like yet another distortion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
But it’s not all doom and gloom, either.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
The moderate exuberance that prevailed a year ago as Friedrich Merz ascended to the chancellorship and Berlin released its constitutional “debt brake” has given way to gloom.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
That level of gloom is not yet reflected in current oil prices.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Mr. Wickham’s society was of material service in dispelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn family.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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