as in dark
a time or place of little or no light
strange nocturnal noises emanated from the forbidding blackness of the forest
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Recent Examples of blackness
Now, embracing chocolate nails is part of embracing our self-care, our boldness, and our blackness.
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Larry Stansbury, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
Idle outside on a warm summer evening and let the inky blackness envelope you.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
The pressure and pitch-blackness no longer felt foreign or oppressive.
—Ayana Underwood, Outside, 20 Sep. 2025
But the town’s blackness isn’t just about coal—or, for that matter, about the police abuse Shinhye suffers there.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blackness
Larry Stansbury, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
Idle outside on a warm summer evening and let the inky blackness envelope you.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
The pressure and pitch-blackness no longer felt foreign or oppressive.
—Ayana Underwood, Outside, 20 Sep. 2025
But the town’s blackness isn’t just about coal—or, for that matter, about the police abuse Shinhye suffers there.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blackness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackness
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For pure spectacle, Mardi Gras World reveals how the city’s legendary floats come alive; Vue Orleans delivers 360-degree views and smart interactive storytelling; and New Orleans Secrets tours takes you inside haunted buildings after dark for a paranormal experience with real atmospheric bite.—
Sophie Morgan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026
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Life’s basic chemistry may start not in warm ponds on young planets but in the icy dark between the stars.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Ariana Grande stunned in a dramatic black Vivienne Westwood Couture ball gown that featured draping velvet straps tied in bows at the shoulders.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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Grab it in olive green, creamy white, or classic black.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
11 Jan. 2026
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The changes also allowed Mingo to step out of the shadows cast by André DeShields and Richard Pryor, who played the Wiz in the original Broadway show and 1978 movie adaptation, and make the role his own.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
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In it, prisoners trapped inside a cave perceive the world only through shadows cast by outside objects.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Jan. 2026
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Night comes slowly, and only the darkness indicates that something can change here, in the steppe.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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In that darkness, the security forces cracked down.—
Sarah Dean,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
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Firefighters also worked through the night to put out fires in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, where two people were injured, officials said.—
AAMER MADHANI AND SUSIE BLANN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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An explosion was reported at a metal fabricating plant on Thursday night in Pennsylvania, according to officials.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Some planets — like Venus and Mercury — are inherently difficult to spot due to their tight orbit around our parent star, which keeps them low on the horizon around dawn or dusk.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Unlike some of Dubai’s city centre skyscrapers, where rooms are hermetically sealed within glass and steel, every accommodation comes with its own spacious balcony for lounging and gazing at the sun setting over the sea or the city lighting up at dusk.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
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During totality, temperatures drop, and the daytime sky turns twilight-blue.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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High-profile defectors, including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia, are in the twilight of their careers and unlikely to return.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
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As wonderfully portrayed by Buric, the Wonder Man reboot’s director is every European artiste absorbed into the American studio system cut with a dose of Werner Herzog’s gloom; his mansion could be a museum of Hollywood Regency decadence.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Jan. 2026
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But what Spurs wouldn’t give for a Michael Carrick-esque boost to pierce through the engulfing gloom.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Blackness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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