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
Under leaden skies in St John's Wood, South Africa exploited favourable bowling conditions after Bavuma had won the toss.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025
Why not spend it making a cozy home, tending a little garden, shutting out the leaden horrors outside?
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024
They’ve accomplished it, but at the expense of engagement, resulting in a collection of leaden scenes that might make the audience want to claw out of its own skin.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024
I try to feel my way forward, but my limbs are leaden, and in moments I slip to the floor, my body a deadweight.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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