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as in shade
partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays
the valley was in shadow
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as in black
shadows plural
a time or place of little or no light
lurking in the shadows
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as in trace
a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished
a run-down mansion that is only a shadow of its former glory
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as in glimmer
a very small amount
not even a shadow of a doubt about the defendant's guilt
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as in ghost
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
rumors of a shadow haunting the castle
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as in to chase
to go after or on the track of
shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to
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as in to obscure
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
thickening clouds shadowed the countryside
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Recent Examples of shadow
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
In Los Angeles, Reginald Joseph has also been living under the shadow of the ruling on TPS for Haitians like him.
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Hira Humayun,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 June 2026
On Tuesday, the Grigorovich was being shadowed by HMS Mersey, a Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel operating in the area at the time of the incident, the spokesperson said.
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Hira Humayun,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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Noun
People gathered on the National Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument, sitting on blankets and plastic chairs in the balmy summer weather.
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Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
In Los Angeles, Reginald Joseph has also been living under the shadow of the ruling on TPS for Haitians like him.
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Hira Humayun,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
Verb
This little pitstop happened on Lucy's way to a rendezvous with the Trojan asteroids that shadow Jupiter around the sun.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 June 2026
On Tuesday, the Grigorovich was being shadowed by HMS Mersey, a Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel operating in the area at the time of the incident, the spokesperson said.
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Hira Humayun,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shadow
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The cinnamon sugar option offers a pretty shade (basically my lips but better) plus a super yummy scent.
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The electric blue shade adds such a fun pop of color to a summer wardrobe, instantly brightening up basics like white jeans, denim shorts, or neutral trousers.
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Suddenly, stickers with red, purple or orange edges became especially sought-after, and collectors have put huge bounties on ultra-rare, black-bordered, 1-of-1s — as in, one in the world — depicting Messi, Ronaldo, Lamine Yamal and other big stars.
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The result is a black that creates a ‘black-hole’ effect of virtually no reflected light at all.
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Chalky lotions have morphed into invisible gels; heavy, greasy layers now blend away without a trace.
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The roots of the restaurant trace even earlier than 1910 to Harold's great-great uncle, Uncle Joe, smoking meat in a ground pit.
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For many, the images of international aid teams arriving and climbing through the rubble alongside them offered a glimmer of hope.
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Iserson gave fans a glimmer of hope.
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There are legends of ghost sightings and spooky happenings on the dirt road, like the woman who reportedly wanders it in the dark, crying out for her children.
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The ghosts of 1982 Austrian coach Ralf Rangnick was asked multiple times at a news conference Friday outside of Arrowhead Stadium about that shocking game at the 1982 World Cup.
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Poor caching quietly increases latency, cloud cost, battery usage and backend load at scale.
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Channel the optimism of a 2016 summer with short nails that look like clouds of cotton candy.
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Ten plus years chasing this championship – never got the recognition.
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In one incident, a child set off bear spray in a crowd; in another, officers recovered a gun after chasing a youth, police said.
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The irony is a bit hard to ignore — the very environment being modified to protect or maintain beaches was simultaneously obscuring the ecological processes happening just offshore.
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And what’s a novelist but a fence, furnishing imaginary scenes with choice pieces of reality while obscuring their provenance?
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“Shadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadow. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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