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as in sadness
a state or spell of low spirits
has been in a perpetual gloom since his dog died
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as in dark
a time or place of little or no light
the gloom of a rainy night is the perfect setting for a mystery story
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as in to glare
to look with anger or disapproval
we just sat there, glooming, as we waited and waited for our dinners to arrive
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as in to darken
to take on a gloomy or forbidding look
he continued to gloom over the fact that he had been passed over for promotion to district manager
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Recent Examples of gloom
Andy Swift, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
After two years of doom and gloom, digital health deals are showing signs of life, with venture capital firms making more focused bets and interest rate cuts rekindling some of the COVID-era optimism around the sector.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
Our imperviousness to gloom is our own peculiar virtue.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2022
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Noun
And the evening wasn’t all doom and gloom for the Wilson family.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
After two years of doom and gloom, digital health deals are showing signs of life, with venture capital firms making more focused bets and interest rate cuts rekindling some of the COVID-era optimism around the sector.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
Verb
But, there is still gloom ahead for economies in the region.
—Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
Our imperviousness to gloom is our own peculiar virtue.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gloom
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Another almost fell to their death while the group was hiking after dark along a steep, forested hillside above Class V rapids.Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
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Zion finishes off the standard base trailer with a set of four bed lights for easily rummaging through cargo after dark and a rocker switch panel for those lights and available auxiliary and rock lights.New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
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Cuts were the defining feature in her administration’s recent budget, with the National Immigration Institute a glaring exception.Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Unrivaled has announced rosters for its inaugural season, but there’s one glaring omission.Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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In another unusual move, Jeffries kept certain store windows darkened to create a mystique and had eager, curious customers kept standing on line outside waiting to get in.Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
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Photograph: Daisuke Takimoto In addition, when the doors are closed, the liquid crystal shutters on the windows on both sides will darken to create a dimmer, more private space.Daisuke Takimoto, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
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The Fed’s duties expanded after the Great Depression, another crisis that was triggered by a stock market crash and made worse by an agricultural depression brought on by unsustainable farming practices, droughts and the Dust Bowl.Reco McCambry, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Postpartum depression symptoms can include persistent feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, eating and sleep disturbances and excessive irritability or crying.Dr. Esther Zusstone, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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The traditional media business has been staring at these multiple roads for years now, and none of them are anywhere near as bucolic as Frost’s woods.Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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By then, after so many years staring at a sideways world, everything had started to appear off-kilter.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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What Wyler is frowning about, past this threat to her own ambition — that’s less coherent.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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In all three cases, Google is fighting desperately to avoid being broken up as a monopoly, and judges have frowned deeply upon its handling of evidence.Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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To say more about the plot would spoil the film too much, but Ryder is really a chameleon, flickering between quiet melancholy, genuine affection, and darker, more selfish concerns, and the rotoscoping art style accentuates the expressiveness of her face.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
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At 78, Ferry reigns as the elder statesman of rock-star romantics, the king of elegant melancholy.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
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Finally, with a twist of the ambient magnetic field, tiny tornadoes swirl into existence, pirouetting in the darkness.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Back in her introductory scene, though, Sofia is a beacon in the darkness.Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Gloom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gloom. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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