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Adjective
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There’s also a wide color selection, which includes the dusky pink and plum Disco Dust and the pink, cool purple, and dirty red Electric Cherry.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2024 -
It was delivered in pale colors, including tones of beige, brown, dusky pinks, light blue and in black and white.—
Laia Farran Graves,
Forbes,
18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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This spiral-shaped cloud is faintly visible to the naked eye under a clear, moonless sky.—
David J Eicher,
Discover Magazine,
19 May 2020
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Look to the southeast and south for that this month—and this week in particular, which will be largely moonless.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
26 June 2022
Adjective
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This obscure economics concept shows a profitable path forward even though our competitors are drastically undercutting us.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2025
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Radio Paradise also offers extensive biographies of artists both famous and obscure.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Its themes and plots were often pitch-dark and inhabited by hypnotists, somnambulists, mediums, spies, the devil himself, serial killers, and crime bosses.—
Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
24 Dec. 2024
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Geo News and broadcaster ARY both reported that a massive raid was launched by security forces in pitch-dark central Islamabad, where lights had been turned off and a barrage of tear gas was fired.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Sunlight is responsible for the crescent, yet the remainder of the moon appears to shine with a dim blush-gray tone.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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During a late January tour of Mammoth Cave, the guide clapped his hands, and the already dim lights went out.—
Nathan Diller,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The woods are very dark indeed, and writers have often turned to Dante during their own crises.—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The show’s recently released second and, sadly, final season raises the stakes of his misadventures, taking darker turns but abandoning neither the absurd humor nor the glimpses of beauty that add dimensions to Amer’s quintessentially American, Palestinian-refugee story.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Trudy was somber and a bit peeved that Mouch had forgotten her birthday.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2025
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Republicans were quick to jump out of their chairs to applaud while Democrats sat somber, arms crossed.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Zoom in: Divers worked in 20-minute shifts around the wreckage, swimming through the pitch-black depths and taking breaks at times to replace their suits, torn by debris.—
Cuneyt Dil,
Axios,
31 Jan. 2025
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As the night wears on — and Slim, Pierre, Broken Feather, Dusty, and Pete are met by a group of singing girls out in the pitch-black pastures — the visuals fail to transcend, but the paradoxical party still feels like one that could only be put on by Lynch.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Penumbral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penumbral. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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