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Recent Examples of dark age
Exiled by Emperor Cleon XII (a magnificent Lee Pace) to the remote planet of Terminus, Seldon plans to establish a Foundation dedicated to shortening the coming dark age with his disciples, including Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell).
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David Faris, theweek, 24 Apr. 2024
Their report, published late last year in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, found no evidence that the inverter invasion is plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
This could make October 7 the beginning of a dark age in Israel’s history—one characterized by more and growing violence.
—Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
There’s no evidence that inverters are plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
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David Faris, theweek, 24 Apr. 2024
Their report, published late last year in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, found no evidence that the inverter invasion is plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
This could make October 7 the beginning of a dark age in Israel’s history—one characterized by more and growing violence.
—Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
There’s no evidence that inverters are plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dark age
Noun
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Currently, Mercury sets about 90 minutes after sunset; about a half hour after sundown look for it about 10 degrees above the west-southwest horizon.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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The planet parade that began in January will then come to an end by mid-to-late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the sky each night after sunset, according to NASA.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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Warming is also altering rain patterns, accelerating droughts, facilitating the spread of devastating diseases like pod rot, and contributing to soil degradation.—
Ayurella Horn-Muller,
WIRED,
22 Feb. 2025
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Finding the right chemistry The degradation of battery performance is largely a matter of its key components gradually dropping out of use within the battery.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
21 Feb. 2025
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This industry is the major culprit in the bay’s deterioration.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Feb. 2025
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In the fourth quarter, revenues were up 2 percent at constant exchange rates, returning to growth after several quarters of deterioration, mainly thanks to the improvement recorded by the wholesale channel.—
Luisa Zargani,
WWD,
13 Feb. 2025
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Consumers so far have been willing to pay record prices thanks to recent trends around wage and employment growth, according to Swanson, but prices could drop if demand ebbs.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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But relations between the US and China, the world’s two most powerful nations, have sunk to their lowest ebb in decades, strained by spiraling competition over technology, military, geopolitics and more.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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March will be a spectacular month for eclipses in North America.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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The upcoming eclipse's totality will last about 65 minutes.—
Jess Thomson,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Keys to economic rejuvenation in these left-behind places are the devolution of decision-making powers to local and regional authorities, as well as having sufficient financial resources to implement the resulting bottom-up decisions.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Schematic plot aside, Gigolo succeeds as a profile of a pleasure provider whose generosity masks a thin veneer of loneliness, and Gere persuasively sells his character’s devolution from desirable man to out-of-work prostitute after his fancy clients hang him out to dry. 6.—
Vikram Murthi,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2025
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Abraham Lincoln no longer speaks for the Republican Party, nor possibly America, as the degeneracy into primitive violence has taken the nation by the throat from the Bully Pulpit down to the mass shootings in schools.—
Kary Love,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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Changes in metabolism, appetite, and mobility could signal underlying brain degeneration.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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While chubby cats may look cute, obesity can shorten their life and expose them to elevated risks of cancer, diabetes mellitus, heart disease and hypertension, osteoarthritis and faster degeneration of affected joints, urinary bladder stones, and anesthetic complications.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
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