grim
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He wasn’t even a major player in the tightknit community of AI safety advocates who discuss grim scenarios at happy hours across San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 17, 2026
For the next two hours, anchors and reporters covered the story while informing viewers of a grim fact: The station had lost contact with its Chopper 4 crew.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 16, 2026
One of the senior doctors who tried to raise concerns about Lucy Letby with hospital managers has told the BBC the final inquiry report makes for "grim reading".
From BBC β Sep. 15, 2026
The news was grim: By the time the indebted workers reached their 40s, their median account balances were about 45% less than those who didn’t borrow for higher education.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 15, 2026
His face had become very serious, almost grim, with every trace of laughter taken from it.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Reports David has heard from clients in Cameroon are even grimmer: the IOM has refused to facilitate medical care for some detainees, the lawyer said.
From Barron's β Jul. 7, 2026
That’s a turnaround from their much grimmer forecasts last fall.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 20, 2026
But as bad as the disruptions and damage to public schools will be, Mahmoud will be infamous for grimmer reasons.
From Slate β Jun. 30, 2025
The numbers are even grimmer for low-income students and students of color: Only 23% of low-income children, 27% of Black children and 32% of Hispanic children were reading at grade level.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 30, 2024
Large numbers of malignant tumors are discovered clinically in children under the age of five, but it is an even grimmer fact that significant numbers of such growths are present at or before birth.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
He volunteered at the very start and has survived some of the grimmest battles.
From BBC β Jul. 20, 2026
Despite the market’s record-setting pace, anxiety about the war in Iran has left Americans in the grimmest economic mood on record.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 24, 2026
Most of this year’s documentary nominees deal with the grimmest of tragedies, as in “All the Empty Rooms” and “Children No More: Were and Are Gone,” which address the remembrance of children brutally killed.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 20, 2026
Behind the scenes, his producers eagerly exploited the grimmest episodes of vulnerable people’s lives, never disabusing them of the false assumption that appearing on “Springer” would somehow help them.
From Salon β Jan. 7, 2025
The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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