bleak
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The prospects for the market had been bleak as of Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods tumbled toward their worst day in three years on Tuesday, as the sporting-goods retailer’s bleak earnings report revealed that people needed deeper discounts to buy athletic shoes and clothes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Baseball has a bleak history of wealthy owners unwilling to open up their wallets when it matters most—why howl about a team that unabashedly does?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
At the same time, it is potentially a rare chink of light in a bleak picture.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Or how the horizon seems bleak, dusty, and endless?
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
For young Americans, though, the job landscape was much bleaker.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The situation has grown bleaker in the last decade and a half as commercial pressures have ramped up and media consolidation and digital shortsightedness have obliterated arts coverage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
When Raducanu dissected her French Open first-round exit just three weeks ago in Paris, things looked much bleaker.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Trust me when I say it was even bleaker than that sounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
“The situation is undoubtedly bleaker now,” they wrote.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
Instead, millions of university graduates are entering the bleakest job market in years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Since this scene plays more than halfway through the second season in an episode called “Last Drink,” we recognize this as the bleakest version of “famous last words.”
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024
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
June and July were the bleakest months on Robben Island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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