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also loury
as in lowering
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Adjective
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And minimizing the ability for rival studios to make viable alternative games, critics argue, has had a negative effect on the quality of sports titles across the sector.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
26 Sep. 2025 -
At the same time, Kirk’s admirers are campaigning to get people who make negative comments about those views—which are, after all, highly controversial and designedly so—fired from their jobs.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Joy speaks at length about growing up in a culturally sophisticated yet oppressive family and holding her artistic temperament in check, before achieving a belated liberation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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The oppressive regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran has kept her away.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Additional revelations hint of Kiri's evolving powers, the menacing Quaritch bonding with Varang to help defeat the Na'vi, a spectacular air/sea clash between the Ash People, the RDA, and the Na’vi, and Spider threatening to kill someone offscreen.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Who’s messing with the lights and filling the air with menacing rumbles and zaps?—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In August, Fox and Google went back and forth, with the former threatening to pull its channels.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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Officers rendered aid to the victim who was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Molina, a window dresser imprisoned for public indecency, escapes the grim reality of their confinement by retelling the plot of a glamorous Hollywood musical featuring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez).—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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This one revealed fresh cause for concern, and a much more grim prognosis.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The main colors are dull gray and drab brown.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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Those spring displays can range from spotty clusters of color to an epic superbloom that might happen every five to 10 years when the normally drab desert sands are transformed into a vast carpet of colors.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This might seem to be a dour sign for software engineers.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Middle income wage earners have recently been expressing dour sentiment that low-income earners have long been feeling.—
Jill Schlesinger,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Boosting Serum is a lightweight, brightening formula designed to even tone and revive dull, tired skin.—
Sarah Han,
Allure,
25 Sep. 2025
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The best clarifying shampoo can completely transform a lackluster shower routine, deep cleansing hair, exfoliating the scalp, and banishing excess oils and product buildup that leave strands flat, dull, or frizz-prone.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Lowery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lowery. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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