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as in darkened
being without light or without much light
finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible
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Recent Examples of pitch-black
Photos and video show the explorers squeezing through jagged crevices deep inside the karsts, using flashlights to guide them further along an otherwise pitch-black maze of rocky burrows.
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Xiao Sang slowly approached the well’s edge and looked down into it, into the pitch-black below.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
The cave was pitch-black, silent, and alive with what looked like a galaxy of bioluminescent stars.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
The Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu guides me from a pitch-black hallway into an open space, where beams of light and smoke, interspersed with sounds from the streets of Mexico City, create a vortex into a unique cinematic experience.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
Xiao Sang slowly approached the well’s edge and looked down into it, into the pitch-black below.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
The cave was pitch-black, silent, and alive with what looked like a galaxy of bioluminescent stars.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
The Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu guides me from a pitch-black hallway into an open space, where beams of light and smoke, interspersed with sounds from the streets of Mexico City, create a vortex into a unique cinematic experience.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitch-black
Adjective
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In the darkened foyer, Ember contemplated this unassuming bit of paper, momentarily paralyzed by a mixture of dread and excitement stirred together, an overpowering sensation that oozed from the crown of her head, down the length of her body, then hardened, like a soft golden resin becoming solid.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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As scientists often find darkened teeth in ancient burials, other factors can contribute to a black appearance, notably the chewing of betel leaves.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
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Late last month for example, Bieber styled the understated shoe with jeans and a white T-shirt for a casual yet polished outfit, similar to Zendaya’s look consisting of white airy pants and a black long-sleeve top.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
26 May 2026
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The fathers, faces ruddy, prayed in Latin for her soul, black robes flapping in the wind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Baha Mar is large in stature, sure—and Rosewood is part of a three-hotel complex across the bay from Atlantis, which looms large and brooding over its own end of the water as everything Baha Mar does not want to be—dated, dark, and reminiscent of Spring Break Past.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 May 2026
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Also fascinating were their contrasting likenesses, dark against light housed in the same being, a human eclipse.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
Adjective
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The 21st century has yielded no shortage of stylish horror marbled with devious veins of pitch-dark humor — Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, pretty much every Jordan Peele feature.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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The play opens in a pitch-dark, three-star-hotel room, a step down for a bereaved family that has lost its patriarch and, as important, its promised inheritance.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But first, the imager will scout the asteroid’s immediate neighborhood to check for any moonlets that could pose hazards to the spacecraft or offer clues to the space rock’s murky past.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
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Details of their final days remain murky.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitch-black. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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