downbeat
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“The Kindness of Strangers” is set in London in 1953, where the downbeat postwar economy has brought together a group of lodgers in the ramshackle house owned by Honor Wilson.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Shares of Under Armour took a dive in early Tuesday trading after the athletic-gear maker reported a wider fiscal fourth-quarter loss than Wall Street was expecting, while providing a downbeat profit outlook.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
A quarterly survey of U.S. professionals on LinkedIn shows that workers have had a downbeat assessment of the labor market for the past year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
They reacted by sending the University of Michigan’s early-April Index of Consumer Sentiment sliding to a record low, with every demographic cohort of age, income, and political preference sounding downbeat.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
It was as though he had given a downbeat with an invisible baton.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Music - Middle School
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