leaden
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Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
But her touch is so heavy that it becomes leaden, almost crushing.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
Sweeney is good, even when the leaden dialogue does her a disservice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
On a bleak late winter's day, under leaden skies and occasional driving rain, this was the moment all Israelis had been dreading.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
He stopped seeing color and all became a swirling, howling, leaden gray desolation.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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