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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a discouraging prospect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation or outcome that seems unfavorable or likely to lead to disappointment.
Example: "The team's recent performance has created a discouraging prospect for their chances of making the playoffs."
Alternatives: "a bleak outlook" or "a discouraging outlook."
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That may seem like a discouraging prospect, but it's a challenge that activists and elected officials should and are beginning to embrace.
For now, that's something of a discouraging prospect, in part because so much kimchi made and served outside Korea is of mediocre quality.
If you wait too long, you will end up having to do a huge load of laundry, which is quite a discouraging prospect after a long tiring day out sightseeing.
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In recent years, the development of new drugs, such as paclitaxel, docetaxel, and gemcitabine, has begun to change a somewhat discouraging prospect.
On Sunday he was still alive, though a doctor gave a discouraging prognosis.
After a 46-44 loss at Dartmouth on Feb. 29, Cornell faced the discouraging prospect of playing the next night at Harvard without Maduka, who was to compete instead in the Ivy League indoor track and field championships.
We share the same discouraging prospects; no wonder it's soothing to turn to the past.
In 1930, with his painting prospects looking dim (Gertrude Stein had dropped a discouraging word about his talent), he picked up a camera.
It was a discouraging setback.
It was a discouraging time.
It was a discouraging moment.
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