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as in dark
a time or place of little or no light
the raiding party snuck up under cover of darkness
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as in ambiguity
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
the darkness of certain passages in the Book of Revelation
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as in night
the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight
let's wait for darkness before telling ghost stories
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Recent Examples of darkness
Though his upbeat demeanor shone through every viral interaction, Jelly Roll’s music was still infused with a questioning darkness that lingers from his teens and 20s spent incarcerated and his 30s struggling to break through musically.
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
The meteor shower has been going on all month, but shooting stars are expected to ramp up heading into the weekend, particularly after midnight Friday and in the stretch of darkness before dawn, according to NASA.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
The park, which is now recognized for its inky black skies, has long protected a sprawling system of caves and passages that offer their own brand of darkness.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
Set in the long period of winter darkness in Alaska, the mystic crime drama puts Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Detective Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) to work investigating the frozen deaths of seven men at a research facility.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
The meteor shower has been going on all month, but shooting stars are expected to ramp up heading into the weekend, particularly after midnight Friday and in the stretch of darkness before dawn, according to NASA.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
The park, which is now recognized for its inky black skies, has long protected a sprawling system of caves and passages that offer their own brand of darkness.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
Set in the long period of winter darkness in Alaska, the mystic crime drama puts Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Detective Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) to work investigating the frozen deaths of seven men at a research facility.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for darkness
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At night, this land between the Kerry Mountains and Atlantic Ocean offers a breathtaking dark and starry sky undisturbed by the nine inhabited villages within its perimeter.Nile Cappello, AFAR Media, 27 Dec. 2024
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The bold design is completed with hands and hour markers colored in two shades of blue, one dark and one light, with the lighter shade coloring the crown molding.Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The ambiguity has been further fueled by court cases.Peter Greene, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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This ambiguity still leaves the door open to many possibilities for the identity of dark matter.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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That meant this fall semester playing in the band for Friday night football games, getting up on Saturdays for cross country meets and also attending golf practices and matches during the week.Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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But that time flies by, akin to a cozy night in with an episode binge.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
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The most poignant of these inclusions is the pairing of three cloud studies in oil on paper by John Constable from the early 1820s with four watercolor cloud studies by Luke Howard, a British chemist who in 1803 first proposed a Latinate classification for clouds, a system still in use today.Red Cameron, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
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It’s been that kind of a rookie season for the first overall pick, putting him under the same kind of cloud that seemed to always hang over his predecessor, Justin Fields.Phil Rogers, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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That monologue really did cast a pall over the entire episode.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Megalopolis pushes Coppola into unchecked futuristic, pseudo-classical narrative fabrications (evoking the Shakespearean pall cast by the death of Caesar’s wife).Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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Instead of gentle concentric circles, gleaming finishes, or a mesmerizing light show, the ProArt P16 meets us with inky blackness.PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
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The Mid-Credits Scene — the King in Black The central plot of The Last Dance revolves around Venom trying to stop the creator of the symbiotes, Knull (Andy Serkis), from escaping his celestial prison and returning all of existence to the Void, the blackness that predates the universe.Richard Newby, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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At dusk, a procession of the faithful takes to the streets with children often dressed as angels and shepherds.Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024
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Crete is famous for these: the hills at dusk are all blues, violets and blacks; the sky a hundred shades of pink and orange where the sun hits the Aegean.William Leigh, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Take your pick from black to mocha to crisp, winter white.Taylor Jean Stephan, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
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Flaunt this fun, floral style, or opt for their best-selling classic black.Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 31 Jan. 2023
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“Darkness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darkness. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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