bleak
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Facing a bleak prognosis, he went into hurry-up mode to provide security for his family — and information for his readers — as best he could in the time he had left.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
While these are in many respects traditional songs, this is music that hits you on a subliminal level, where a series of major traumas and minor victories fuse into a bleak worldview streaked with hope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In Catia La Mar, one of the coastal towns in La Guaira state, the mood is bleak.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
As with many climate change stories, it can all sound pretty bleak.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
The hills stretched out into bleak rolling moorlands as far as the eye could see.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
When Raducanu dissected her French Open first-round exit just three weeks ago in Paris, things looked much bleaker.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The mixed jobs picture reflects surging demand for people in healthcare and social services but a bleaker environment for government employees, factory workers and cubicle dwellers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Capital Economics sees a bleaker future for gold.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
But now as the year approaches its halfway point, a bleaker saying seems apt: “Exist ’til ’26.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2025
That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The final twist is one of the bleakest endings in postwar fiction, precisely because it exposes survival itself as a kind of illusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
When I graduated from UC–Berkeley with my “useless” comparative literature degree, into one of the bleakest job markets in recent American memory, I thought to myself, There must be a loophole somewhere.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
The last connects to the bleakest memory outie Mark and his wife share – a miscarriage that followed months of difficulty conceiving.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
Just when the divisions seemed bleakest, I ran into Jim Kusters, a retiree and Trump supporter who was sitting for breakfast in Mt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024
Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism?
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing bleak
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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