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Recent Examples of depressive Other research shows that women are up to five times more likely to experience a major depressive episode while in the menopause transition and shortly after menopause. Lauren Tetenbaum, Flow Space, 15 July 2025 The 67-year-old woman from Alabama had already endured four major depressive episodes in her decades-long battle with mental illness. IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2025 Then the comic shifts gears entirely, writing in sobering and harrowing detail of a particularly nasty depressive episode. Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025 There was also a 28% lower risk of falls, and a 22% lower incidence of depressive symptoms. New Atlas, 26 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for depressive
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Adjective
  • Directed by Paul Schrader with a script by Bret Easton Ellis, this spiritually bleak L.A. drama features Lohan’s most daring performance, and probably the only one that manages to break completely with her childhood and adolescent roles.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The situation is bleak enough that, even if aid increases rapidly in the coming weeks, deaths from starvation are almost certain to rise.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Gambling today, however, is a sad and depressing experience, nothing like my dad’s and my Atlantic City adventure.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2025
  • And yet, somehow, the most depressing show on TV—with the exception of any news broadcast, at least—is a reality soap about bougie couples in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
    Judy Berman, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • High-contrast, stark black-and-white tones, water droplets and a somber expression emerging from shadows.
    Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • There were no somber emotions this time from Dončić’s side, with Balkan music blasting throughout the practice facility before he and Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka held a news conference to celebrate Dončić’s extension.
    Khobi Price, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Hero Ellen Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) lonely fight for survival gave way to a military mission to vanquish aliens ravaging a human colony; Cameron filled the frame with cocky Marines, boxy space tanks, and an adorable orphan who finds in Ripley a surrogate mother.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The movie Marty was based on Chayefsky’s television drama about two lonely people finding love.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Sydney Sweeney’s new dark crime comedy Americana is new in theaters this weekend.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • One look at his lone, dark face in his Brighton High class picture tells you.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Emperor Titus attempted but failed to revive Pompeii and its sibling town Herculaneum soon after the catastrophe, leaving the desolate region largely abandoned until its rediscovery in 1748.
    Andrew Paul Aug 7, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In Namibia, Shipwreck Lodge in the desolate Skeleton Coast National Park and the secluded Hoanib Valley Camp are oases of luxury in otherworldly settings.
    Erina Pinar, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Wednesday and Pugsley's Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) and Morticia's estranged mother, Grandmama Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley), will also be around to join in on the morbid fun.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Supremely silly, vaguely morbid and altogether hard to believe.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • That view shifted Wednesday, with our double upgrade back to our buy-equivalent 1 rating after CEO David Ricks and several other company insiders bought lots of shares of the depressed stock.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Once rich and chubby and depressed, Johnson is now, at forty-seven, rich and ripped and determined to live forever.
    Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Depressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depressive. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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