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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Beat the summer doldrums by spending a day at the zoo.
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The stock market is much improved from the doldrums of 1990.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even against a country in the doldrums you just can't expect to turn up and automatically win.
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Recent economic doldrums have hurt the rural west.
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Roddy McDowall makes an appearance as a mad old soldier and lifts the film out of its doldrums .
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The beef industry has been in the doldrums ever since consumers began to turn away from eating red meat.
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With stock and bond markets in the doldrums , their trading operations have been badly hit.
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With the computer business still in the doldrums , Ahmadi quit that to help his wife run the hair accessory business.