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Recent Examples of penumbral
However, the entire eclipse — including the penumbral and partial phases — will last 5 hours, 38 minutes.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
The entire eclipse, including the penumbral and partial phases (as the full moon moves through Earth’s fuzzy outer shadow, the penumbra, and into its dark umbra), will last five hours and 27 minutes.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
The entire eclipse, including the penumbral and partial phases (as the full moon moves through Earth’s fuzzy outer shadow, the penumbra, and into its dark umbra), will last five hours and 27 minutes.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for penumbral
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Over the weekend, around 16,000 people paid their respects to the designer at his funeral chamber at the Armani Teatro designed by Tadao Ando, filled with white flowers and paper lanterns on the floor in a diagonal grid formation dimly lit up the darkened venue.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Wildlife officials have put out a call to the public after the body of a dusky dolphin was found decapitated on a New Zealand beach.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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Olsen kept her glam simple for the evening and opted for a terracotta blush on her cheeks and a dusky mauve gloss on her lips.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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On a moonless night in January, a gargantuan turtle was digging a nest high up on a soft sand beach at Galathea Bay on the Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.—
M. Rajshekhar,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Overhead, the late-summer sky was moonless and staggeringly clear.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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By tracing a genealogy of conjure, Stewart also seeks to reveal many obscured contributions of Black women to American history.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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How different this trip would have been in the pre-GPS era, when the obscured road sign at one intersection would likely have sent me off track.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
19 Apr. 2018
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Its 19th-century spire lit up like a matchstick against the darkling sky, its tip cracking and plunging through the ceiling.—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Sunway was transformed by Jeffrey Cheah from an obscure tin-mining company over the five decades into one of Malaysia’s biggest conglomerates with interests in construction, education, healthcare, infrastructure and real estate.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Robinson also explained the obscure engravings found on bullet casings that were left behind at the scene.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Berger based his claim on the fossils being found in narrow, pitch-dark chambers, far from natural entrances or evidence of animal activity.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Alas, The Man said no to his dream of swinging a pickaxe all day within the bowels of a pitch-dark cave, and so poor Steve grew up to be the saddest doorknob salesman that Chuglass, Idaho had ever seen.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 Apr. 2025
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Many stars making up familiar constellation figures are invisible, and dim constellations such as Cancer and Pisces are not seen at all.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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What explains this dim outlook?—
Jill Schlesinger,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Penumbral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penumbral. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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