dark-skinned
adjective
: having a brown skin tone : having dark pigmentation of the skin
Uncle Shelton was a thin, dark-skinned black man with a sharp conk and a soft-spoken voice.—
Drew T. Brown III
Drew T. Brown IIIThe dark-skinned Aboriginals, thought to have migrated from mainland Southeast Asia 40,000 years ago, numbered 300,000 when the first British settlers arrived.—Seymour Topping
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This is a dark-skinned, late-ripening grape variety known for producing full-bodied, tannic wines with remarkable aging potential.
—Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
The center will also house the official replica of the Poong Jesus Nazareno, a statue depicting a dark-skinned Jesus carrying the cross to his crucifixion.
—Emilie Takahashi, Oc Register, 22 July 2025
But recent high-profile failures—facial recognition systems that couldn’t recognize dark-skinned faces, loan algorithms that penalized women, language models that hallucinate references—have underscored that AI can be deeply flawed.
—Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
One episode inverts the tired old scenario in which white explorers are threatened with death by dark-skinned natives; here, the captors are Nordic warrior women.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
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Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
The center will also house the official replica of the Poong Jesus Nazareno, a statue depicting a dark-skinned Jesus carrying the cross to his crucifixion.
—Emilie Takahashi, Oc Register, 22 July 2025
But recent high-profile failures—facial recognition systems that couldn’t recognize dark-skinned faces, loan algorithms that penalized women, language models that hallucinate references—have underscored that AI can be deeply flawed.
—Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
One episode inverts the tired old scenario in which white explorers are threatened with death by dark-skinned natives; here, the captors are Nordic warrior women.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
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“Dark-skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark-skinned. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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