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also loury
as in lowering
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Adjective
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According to Newsweek, the overall score was composed of 80% from survey results, and 20% from social listening analysis, which analyzed media coverage and online discussion to assess whether public sentiment was positive, neutral or negative.—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026 -
The contest aims to challenge negative stereotypes of seagulls, which are often seen as a nuisance, by imitating them, per local network WTV.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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An especially visually striking debut, Mosquitoes exists in a saturated hyperreality that is consummately engrossing, and announces the Bertani sisters as formidable portraitists of girlhood cast against the backdrop of an alternately beautiful and oppressive world.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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Snakes, freeways, difficult men and Didion’s quiet brutality hang in the air like the oppressive heat of this unusually warm spring day.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Idaho lawmakers spent hours debating a surge in rodents menacing Boise-area gardens and kitchens and threatening agriculture and public health.—
Karin Brulliard,
Washington Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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If the sky becomes menacing and thunder becomes audible, seek out a safe place to seek shelter.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2026
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Libertini said his injuries did not appear life-threatening.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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Each of their injuries appeared to be non-life-threatening.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Both are grim readings for a hotel chain playing a volume game.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Canary Wharf, formerly grim docks and working-class housing blocks in eastern London, has been transformed into a mammoth global commercial center.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Before the dinner, in the suite of drab side rooms buried in the basement of the Washington Hilton, Fox News hosted its annual reception.—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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Nothing reminded me of that as much as when Kimi and Myka, after doing runway walks in their hairnets and drab white protective garments, shoveled the graves of whey out of a slurry and pitched them into a giant bin.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Half Man is largely dour and colorless, doomed from beginning to end.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
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Thank heaven, then, for Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World, which captures all the dour hijinks and cold freakery of its source text on an all-too-IRL plane.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Apr. 2026
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The same study notes that the hormonal cascade may even dull pain by activating peripheral nerves and autonomic pathways.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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Expecting dull days and strict rules, the boy instead stumbles into a world of delightful chaos and imagination – where outrageous stories are spun, and a world of wonder, memory and mischief unfolds.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Lowery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lowery. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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