Example Sentences

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Here are a few more ways to fight this month’s financial downers:

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2024

The holdout by RB Melvin Gordon and the foot surgery for S Derwin James were preseason downers.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2019

Why can’t they be total downers like the Jim Carroll Band and Beck?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2017

If there are few equivalents in television to film’s great downers, that’s because the medium plays by very different rules.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2016

There are a lot of Debbie downers among the voters, and both the parties have to be currying favors with them.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2016